Family photo album thread

Redtracer · **Posted:** Thu Jan 05, 2012 5:25 pm

I resently posted some photos (B-26 on Cactus) taken by my Great Uncle, Capt. Edward H Morrison during his service in the South Pacific in WWII. I was thinking how many unique Warbird related photographs there must be out there sitting in a shoebox or cedar chests, seen only by that persons family? So why not start a Family photo album thread? So I challenge all you WIXer to get you butts up in the attic, deep in the closet, or down in the basement and dig out thoses old war time photos and post them for all of us to learn from and enjoy!

I'll start with my Grandfather, Lawrence "Mac" MacClendon 11th Airborne, 188thGIR

Mac

Proud of his coconut!

Taken as he went out the door on PNG.

Dreaming of home.

I can't wait to see what's out there!

Chris Brame · **Posted:** Thu Jan 05, 2012 9:46 pm

I did my dad's album a while back:

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5954&p=49760&hilit=itami#p49760

(Six years? Time flies a lot faster than anything my dad rode in...)

Since then I've found a better shot of the P-84B my dad's sitting in:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/my_public_ ... 533659914/

Redtracer · **Posted:** Thu Jan 05, 2012 11:05 pm

Yeah! That's what I'm talking about!

Thanks Chris

Redtracer · **Posted:** Fri Jan 06, 2012 8:08 pm

Alright, as I said in my other thread (B-26 on Cactus) I have some more photos of when my Great Uncle Edward H Morrison was in flight training at the Ryan School of Aeronautics, Randolph, and Kelly Fields 1941. There is really one gem in them, lets see if you can pick it out?

Posed shots at the Ryan School of Aeronautics, Hemet Ca.

A little hazing going on by upperclassmen. Uncle Ed is the guy on the right with the devilish smile.

The "Taj Mahal" Randolph Field, Tx.

The following photos are of Randolph and Kelly Fields, in Texas

HOLY COW! lOOK AT THAT!!!!!!!! :shock:

Hope you like'em.

Scott Rose · **Posted:** Sun Mar 18, 2012 8:35 am

Cool thread.... I'll have to see what I have in the archives...

The Inspector · **Posted:** Sun Mar 18, 2012 8:23 pm

You also need to wonder how many albums and photos got pitched out after 'gramps' died and no one had any interest in old airplane pictures. I threw out two boxes of old family (I guess) photos after my parents died since neither one identified anyone on any but a very few of hundreds of very old photos and with no Aunts or Uncles to ask, they meant nothing to me beyond being 80+ year old BROWNIE pictures of people I didn't know and could never identify. Sad but I have enough of my own crap to drag around

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sdennison · **Posted:** Mon Mar 19, 2012 12:57 pm

I have posted some of these before...

Chalmers Dennison (R) and Hollywood Carter. 60th FS, 33rd FG CBI 1944

AC Chalmers Dennison

Jug Driver 1944 Assam India

Then to P-38's late 1944. Dad and Hollywood

The big Hunt

Fouga23 · **Posted:** Mon Mar 19, 2012 1:57 pm

Redtracer wrote:

HOLY COW! lOOK AT THAT!!!!!!!! :shock:

What is that? BT wit a Daimler or something? :shock:

The Inspector · **Posted:** Mon Mar 19, 2012 2:10 pm

NO SIR, that there be's a CONSOLIDATED PB-2a dragged around by a supercharged CURTISS CONQUEROR of 675 H.P.. there was also a single set fighter version :vom:

Misterg97 · **Posted:** Mon Mar 19, 2012 2:12 pm

Can I add a personal Photo? :drink3:

... Why not!

Redtracer · **Posted:** Mon Mar 19, 2012 2:41 pm

I've been waiting for someone to ask what the PB-2a was! Would love to have one!!!!!

Ztex · **Posted:** Mon Mar 19, 2012 2:54 pm

I've posted these before...

Dad at work @ North American, Dallas @ 1945

My Uncle, G.N. Jones @ Cerignola Italy...783rd BS

DFC ceremony

My Uncle, Windell Jones @ USS Dionysus. He was a signals guy in the Pacific, made it to Tokyo Harbor on surrender day.

Mom and her two brothers...

TonyM · **Posted:** Mon Mar 19, 2012 3:27 pm

The Inspector wrote:

You also need to wonder how many albums and photos got pitched out after 'gramps' died and no one had any interest in old airplane pictures. I threw out two boxes of old family (I guess) photos after my parents died since neither one identified anyone on any but a very few of hundreds of very old photos and with no Aunts or Uncles to ask, they meant nothing to me beyond being 80+ year old BROWNIE pictures of people I didn't know and could never identify. Sad but I have enough of my own crap to drag around

While I was working on my History BA, I was a full time Garbage man. This was in the day when a garbage man actually lifted a can up and tipped it into the garbage truck hopper.

Anyways, I found several WWII histories in the trash. Numerous photos, letters and other items. ;

I have found photos of Bombing raids on Germany and Occupied Europe taken from a B-24;
I have found an history of a WWII USO dancer;
I have found photos and history of a WWII B-25 gunner shot down during invasion of Italy Sept 10, 1943;
I have found photos and letters of a famous English Chrildren's author (bombed out of her house in May 41) who had a pen pal in Chicago during WWII.

Not every garbage man has a background in social science, so I am sure that many histories and photos go into the land fill. Sad but True.

See the links in the message in this link to read about A/C George Bialis, who history was found in the garbage. Writer Bob Green wrote five columns in the Chicago Tribune about the young cadet, killed in an aviaiton accident in California in 1943.

http://pacaeropress.websitetoolbox.com/ ... AZ-5517515

TonyM · **Posted:** Mon Mar 19, 2012 3:36 pm

TonyM wrote:

The Inspector wrote:

You also need to wonder how many albums and photos got pitched out after 'gramps' died and no one had any interest in old airplane pictures. I threw out two boxes of old family (I guess) photos after my parents died since neither one identified anyone on any but a very few of hundreds of very old photos and with no Aunts or Uncles to ask, they meant nothing to me beyond being 80+ year old BROWNIE pictures of people I didn't know and could never identify. Sad but I have enough of my own crap to drag around

While I was working on my History BA, I was a full time Garbage man. This was in the day when a garbage man actually lifted a can up and tipped it into the garbage truck hopper.

Anyways, I found several WWII histories in the trash. Numerous photos, letters and other items. ;

I have found photos of Bombing raids on Germany and Occupied Europe taken from a B-24;
I have found an history of a WWII USO dancer;
I have found photos and history of a WWII B-25 gunner shot down during invasion of Italy Sept 10, 1943;
I have found photos and letters of a famous English Chrildren's author (bombed out of her house in May 41) who had a pen pal in Chicago during WWII.

Not every garbage man has a background in social science, so I am sure that many histories and photos go into the land fill. Sad but True.

See the links in the message in this link to read about A/C George Bialis, who history was found in the garbage. Writer Bob Green wrote five columns in the Chicago Tribune about the young cadet, killed in an aviaiton accident in California in 1943.

http://pacaeropress.websitetoolbox.com/ ... AZ-5517515

Here is the first article written about A/C George Bialis, whose history was found in the garbage 50 years after his death.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1995 ... e-dear-mom

TonyM

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