Flak Sucks!!

Tue Oct 07, 2008 6:41 pm

Direct 88mm hit on a B-26C 455th BS 323rd BG 1944

B-17F of the 96th BG going down over Germany 1944

Tue Oct 07, 2008 6:44 pm

Tue Oct 07, 2008 8:01 pm

Amazing photos Jack!

Tue Oct 07, 2008 8:03 pm

2 feathered props... what a nightmare!! thanks for the great pics!!

Tue Oct 07, 2008 9:05 pm

The last shot, a 483rd ship, the guy right behind the trailing edge is Charlie Torres, who lives here in Johnson City.

Steve G

Wed Oct 08, 2008 1:06 pm

WOW, those are some frightening images...

Wed Oct 08, 2008 4:47 pm

yep...

Amazing stuff Jack...

Some from my Uncle's stuff...

This one is signed by the surviving co-pilot...Capt. Duckworth.

Here he is, with his wife, at a reunion back in the 80's

Wed Oct 08, 2008 7:27 pm

Wed Oct 08, 2008 8:20 pm

It definitely stinks to be on the receiving end - but it had it's usefulness, too!

A V-1 explodes harmlessly before reaching Antwerp...

Ryan

Wed Oct 08, 2008 9:44 pm

Brave men, all of them

Thu Oct 09, 2008 4:02 pm

Always found this one particularly chilling. I second that mustangdriver, brave men all of them.

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