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Jack Cook · **Posted:** Sat Jul 04, 2009 5:49 pm

SBD-5s from VB-10 USS Enterprise 1944

LTjg Jake Jacobsen

Owen Miller · **Joined:** Fri Aug 27, 2004 9:28 pm **Posts:** 614

Gotta love 'em...the most successful ship killer of the war....

Dan Jones · **Posted:** Sat Jul 04, 2009 6:41 pm

Good looking airplane, too. I'd bet it's a very docile, very easy airplane to fly (being shot at notwithstanding!)

Pogo · **Posted:** Sat Jul 04, 2009 7:15 pm

Gordon Baxter always said "airplanes pretty much do what they look like they'll do". I've found that to be amazingly helpful over the years; I'll bet the SBD is a plane the crews didn't hate. Sho' is a sweet lookin' bird.

Zachary · **Posted:** Sat Jul 04, 2009 8:18 pm

Here I thought this was a post about the reaction that comes when eating too many deviled eggs at the AirVenture WIX Gathering.... :shock:

Zack

m charters · **Posted:** Sat Jul 04, 2009 10:42 pm

Great pictures Jack, and I have to ask, whats your story for those of us who are new here, and where do you get such fantastic photos?

Jack Cook · **Posted:** Sat Jul 04, 2009 10:50 pm

They had a story in the local paper recently about a lady who collected napkins for 65 years :shock:

Change 65 to 30 and napkins to photos and you keep the picture

The National Archives is a gold mine of cool stuff. Vets, Ebay, garage sales can yeild some amazing stuff.
I bought 1000 B-29 negs from Saipan a few months ago at a garage sale for $10 :!:

One of my friends went to Quantico to do some research and brought me back some really cool stuff!

m charters · **Posted:** Sat Jul 04, 2009 10:58 pm

You must have some photo album Jack!

Jack Cook · **Posted:** Sat Jul 04, 2009 11:00 pm

Sadly I lost about 4,000+ originals (among other things like everything)when our house burned down a couple years ago

m charters · **Posted:** Sat Jul 04, 2009 11:12 pm

Sorry to hear that! I had lots of negatives my wife got sick of and told me to toss them, so i did. Now there is equipment to put them from the negative to the computer. Wish i had them now! Had some i took years ago of the Dayton Mosquito coming through Hamilton. Mowed the lawn and buzzed the old tower which i was on top of! Can't find the print now!
Oh well....keep the photos coming, love the quizzes, need more canadian content!

Mgawa · **Posted:** Sun Jul 05, 2009 12:03 am

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I bought 1000 B-29 negs from Saipan a few months ago at a garage sale for $10

Jack- congratulation for that

And images of Dauntless are amazing, I like this machine very much and I have note that people who flew them are very brave!

Jack Cook · **Posted:** Sun Jul 05, 2009 12:06 am

There was a fellow here in town named Bruce Prosser who flew SBDs on Guadalcanal during the start of the campaign.
He was Dick Mangrum's XO and they flew them off the USS Long Island.
He was awarded the Navy Cross for his exploits during the Battle of midway flying a SB2U Vindicator.

Mgawa · **Posted:** Sun Jul 05, 2009 12:09 am

Jack... you are ideal man to make book related to US aviation history in WW2!!! What are you waiting for- you have so much of material, met so much of veteran and became friend with, you have get info from various archive... what are you waiting?!

Jack Cook · **Posted:** Sun Jul 05, 2009 12:11 am

A ghost writer and a sugar daddy.

Capt Bruce Prosser VMSB-232

John Dupre · **Posted:** Sun Jul 05, 2009 11:43 am

Great photos Jack. Any indication of who took them? Anyone well known? I thought of Steichen as soon as I saw them, so rich and full of detail. You can really see why so many B&W photogs stuck with it so long after color became more affordable.

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