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Jack Cook
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P-61A 422nd NFS 9th AF taxies out for a mission Dec. 1944

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For many a tail gunner, that image was probably the last thing they ever saw before going down in flames. Awesome pic Jack...I think you've won rounds one and two so far!! :P

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Jack - I see we share more than one love......

four shots of 9th AAF P-61's taken 1946 in Germany....

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my 90 year old dad remembers them well while on morotai as a rifle company commander. the widows would go up to look for piss call charlie as dad called it, bombing his outfit with engines out of sinc to keep him awake at night. i can only imagine how cranky he was from lack of sleep!!! nothing compared to how cranky he is today!!

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Thanks!! Great stuff.
Where the heck do you guys get all these great shots from!? :shock: 8)
How about some long-lost B-17 pics?

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tom d. friedman wrote:
my 90 year old dad remembers them well while on morotai as a rifle company commander. the widows would go up to look for piss call charlie as dad called it, bombing his outfit with engines out of sinc to keep him awake at night. i can only imagine how cranky he was from lack of sleep!!! nothing compared to how cranky he is today!!


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Tom - will post a series of photographs taken at Morotai 1945 later tonight - among them another P-61 :wink:

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France July 1944 - one of the first P-61's in the ETO - note the rows of P-51 with full D-Day markings in the background

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same a/c, rear-view
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detail shot of the above
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the top turret was eventually removed as it caused moderate buffeting. martin, looking forward to the morotai pics!!! incidently, martin is my dad's name too!!

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Does that a/c have ANY armament? Dorsal barbett is definitely absent, but I can't make out the 20 mike mikes om the belly. Perhaps this is a pre block 15 a/c delivered w/o the barbett.

Tom, I thought they just locked the turret in the forward firing position to finally alleviate the buffeting. :?

Martin, do you have s/n for this a/c?

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Martin, do you have s/n for this a/c?

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will try to read it on the original photo......stay tuned *EDIT* - no luck with the serial - seems to have been overpainted

as for the belly-guns - I have an interesting photograph showing a RAF Mustang III photographed from underneath a P-61 - awesome detail of the latter's gun installation....


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P-61 Gun Bay detail

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four more shots - this time examples from the PTO - the barbettes are evident - an item that normally was missing on ETO ships....


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nickname of this one is "Midnight Madonna"

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