Few old pics...

[kenlyco]

Yes, some are, still pics are getting very few. I am trying to get some of my freinds to get there dads and grandads to start looking behind there bowling balls for pics they probly forgot they had, there is so many just getting thrown away when they pass.My dad was close freinds with Bill Horan a test pilot forVought ,had no kids and boxes of old pics flight gear ect. thrown away.

[Steve Nelson]

Yeah, I always wonder how many priceless historical pictures and artifacts are simply thrown away when veterans pass, because they never talked about it, and thier families don't realize how valuable they are.

SN

[RyanShort1]

From another forum about a guy's father who fought on the OTHER side during WWII.

But here some dates.
As a volunteer he joined LW in 1941 and was trained as a navigator using FW-58 and JU-86, later he joined the STG102, a training unit, 1942 service in Russia, in 43 in Italy to join the Afrikakorps, but too late..
Again in Russia and Finnland (for attacks to the convoys), end of 44 shot down in Russia, captured, but refreed by a Wehrmacht counterattack. Afterwards he joined the SG2 and was trained for piloting FW190, but in lack of fuel only a few flights,
May45 captured by British in Northern Germany,
released in autum 45.
After the war he did his job as a teacher and died 2006 at the age of 83.
Once he told me, that he`s a happy guy, 50% of the men, born in the same year as he was, stayed on the battlefields, and of the rest again 50% are still died.

Only some sentences, but who knows the things behind...

Snip

yes, ther are pictures, but where? I suppose by my mother, will try to get them in August, when I`ll visit her.
The Units:
Stukageschwader 102
Stukageschwader2
Stukageschwader77
Schlachtgeschwader2

The planes:
Focke Wulff 58 Weihe
Junkers Ju 86
Junkers Ju 87
Focke Wulff 190

Stories;
not much, he hated the war, but something about bombing Malta and also about Reconnaisance Flight to Suez 2 hours after the Bombers, also some Flights to Stalingrad to bring fuel.


Fears: to be shot down in The Finnland flights to the Ice-sea, yes and the Russians but after beeing captured he says, he gets the same food like the guards: potatoes

I'm hoping that I get to see some of those pictures!

Ryan