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Chris707
PostPosted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 6:21 pm 
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Google Image Search now incorporates the LIFE Magazine photo archives, and there are a vast number of period shots of US and other combat aircraft; all very good stuff in high-res, and a lot of COLOR!

Some of my finds:


Shot up P-59 (must have been a range target) mislabeled as an F-89
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/f? ... 2a41a4960c

Good view F-89 from rear
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/f? ... bfa7a68143

Loading an F-89's guns
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/f? ... 78d75e331a

SB-17 frontal shot
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/f? ... 209a6c1f12

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/f? ... 190721b67f

B-29 486388
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/f? ... 967fe4652e

F-86 24626
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/f? ... d15cee0a52


B-50 "Square T"
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/f? ... c7f07aebbb



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L. Thompson
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Was it LIFE, or LOOK, or the Saturday Evening Post that had a big photospread view from the air of the dumped aircraft at Biak in or around 1946? I think National Geographic had such pics as well but the spread I recall ws in one of the big format magazines.
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Another from the Life directory..Very cool large scale seaplane model test
http://tbn0.google.com/hosted/images/c? ... 097e_large
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Second Air Force
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L. Thompson wrote:
Was it LIFE, or LOOK, or the Saturday Evening Post that had a big photospread view from the air of the dumped aircraft at Biak in or around 1946? I think National Geographic had such pics as well but the spread I recall ws in one of the big format magazines.


Here's the March '51 National Geographic photo and related text. I'd love to see the other larger format photos if anyone has them!
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