lot of old pictures found in trash. What is this plane?

[carlisle1926]

I found about 100 old pictures of aircraft and barrack photos in a trash can. One of the pictures is of a crashed plane that I am unfamiliar with(assume Japanese).What is this plane? Any idea as to what carrier the pictures were taken on? I don't have a scanner, so I just held each picture and took a photo of each one.

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[RyanShort1]

I found about 100 old pictures of aircraft and barrack photos. One of the pictures is of a crashed plane that I am unfamiliar (assume Japanese).What is this plane? Any idea as to what carrier that the pictures were taken on? I don't have a scanner, so I just held each picture and took a photo of each one.

Looks like a Tupolev SB-2 to me.

Supporting evidence:
http://elhangardetj.blogspot.com/2010/0 ... uerra.html
http://forum.valka.cz/viewtopic.php/t/52806
http://www.ejercitodelaire.mde.es/ea/pa ... BE0051AB9B
http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/album/ ... -sb-2.html
http://usuarios.multimania.es/mrodval/GC52502.HTM


Ryan

[carlisle1926]

I didn't expect it to be Russian. Thanks for the I.D. on the plane Ryan.

[Tulio]

Ryan, you are correct.

First thing I thought when I saw the picture, was Russian, Tupolev something or another.

The glazing on the nose is distinctive on this particular model.


Saludos,


Tulio

[aeroeng]

Great trash can find.

aeroeng

[vg-photo]

Sad to see things like that put in the trash.

[Lynn Allen]

Sad to see things like that put in the trash.

I was thinking the same thing, those meant something to somebody....

[Rob Mears]

I'm curious about the squadron markings. I don't believe I've ever seen those before. Any ideas?

[Barrie MacLeod]

According to Bill C. Kilgrain's
COLOR SCHEMES and MARKINGS
U.S. NAVY AIRCRAFT
1911 - 1950

In January 1947 letters were assigned to Air Groups on carriers.
Where before USS Tarawa owned the T and it was applied to her aircraft, the T now belonged to CVG-1 on USS Tarawa but in the future could move with CVG-1 if it went to another carrier.

It looks like a 40 on the end of the flight deck and that would be CV-40, USS Tarawa.

[Wildchild]

That could also be a Czech B-71...

[tom d. friedman]

nope!! it's a russkie sb - 2 light bomber. i have a bakelite plastic i.d. silhouette model & a couple of i.d. posters of the type. the posters are for sale. original ww2 & in great shape!! 20 bucks + shipping, sent in a tube.

[tom d. friedman]

wow!!! i had to look at those pics again!! there are endless amounts of photo caches / stash out there that have been never seen / or published. you my friend are the jacque cousteau of dumpster diving!!

[1bdvet]

Those pictures are history, and should be put in museum for the next generation to see what greatest generation accomplished.

[Canso42]

Note the small photos. My dad or a friend in the Navy had a camera that took those, "..something like half a 35mm frame." I've seen a few photos of his from that era in that format.