Vintage shots from days gone by!

WW-II Some Photos Hidden in a Trunk for 71 years

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Great pixs. Hard to believe they were just

recently found in an old foot locker and were able to be developed.








Japanese Kawanishi H8K seaplane after strafing. Kwajalein


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Squad of Rufe's at Bougainville . These things were very nimble even with the pontoons.-





The A6M2-N float plane version of the Zero did extremely well,


suffering only a small loss in its legendary maneuverability.


Top speed was not affected, however, the aircraft's relatively light armament was a detriment.





Snow on deck. USS Philippine Sea North Pacific 1945


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HARVS on the way in shot by a P-47. Rare shot.


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Deck crew climbing up to get the pilot out. He did. That’s a fuel tank his foot is on. Empty?----------------------------------------------------------------------





Marines disembark LST at Tinian Island.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------





Bougainville.








Guam





Outside Bastogne


(Dec 1944 )





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German 280mm K5 firing--------------------------------------------------------------





U.S. munitions ship goes up during the invasion of Sicily.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------





GERMAN V1--------------------------------------------------------------





Spitfire "tipping-off" a V1. If you've never heard of this insane tactic ....... At first V1's were shot down by gunfire.


.With the high risk of being blown up, some of the best pilots started tipping the V1's wing, because of damage to


wing tips they later developed a tactic of disrupting the airflow by placing their wing very close to the V1's wing,


causing it to topple. Not every pilot did this. At night this was not possible, the flame from the V1 blinded the pilot


to everything else, though some Mossie pilots flew past closely in front of the V1, again causing it to topple. The


thought of doing this at 450mph, 4,000 feet above the ground, at night, and being blinded gives me the willies.





Panzerkampfwagen VI "E Tiger"-------------------------------------------------------------------





























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More of the lost WWII pics.

Ju-88 loading a torpedo. This is one HUGE bomber .. and it's on pontoons!!!!---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------





German " KARL " mortars. Sebastopol





Reloading a KARL---------------------------------------------------------------------------------





BOOM!





Macchi 202v





Italian 303 Bombers over N Africa


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PICTURES TAKEN 69 YRS AGO & LEFT IN A BROWNIE ARE REAL INTERESTING.


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(December 7, 1941)


Isn't it amazing how a film could last so long in a camera without disintegrating?


Fantastic photos taken 69 years ago. Some of you will have to go to a museum to


see what a Brownie box camera looked like?


Here is a simple picture of that Brownie Box camera, we are talking about. ... .


These photos are absolutely incredible.....Read below, the first picture and at the end...





PHOTOS STORED IN AN OLD BROWNIE CAMERA





Thought you might find these photos very interesting; what quality from 1941. These Pearl Harbor photos were found in an old Brownie stored in a foot locker and just recently taken to be developed. They are from a Sailor who was on the USS Quapaw ATF-110.PEARL HARBOR December 7th, 1941---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

Share this with ALL ages.................


Elderly will remember. Young should be awed.

 

^^^ I see red X's

 

me too

 

big thanks, T-head, you've as always a good hand for nice stories, love to read your articles..

 

Truly lost

 

Such sweetness!

 

look at all the red xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxd

 

Sorry they didn't come thru....I use the Mozilla Firefox browser. Other browsers may not show the pics....

 

Damn, I spent the past couple of minutes reloading the page and swearing at my internet connection, when it wasn't just at my end.
I feel better, but would still like to see the pics.
Cheers.

 

Red Xs here, too. But, given all the different years and war theaters, I doubt that one trunk held that many rolls of undeveloped WWII film (the original story).

They're GREAT photos, all. I'm sure we can work this out.

 

I use Mozilla and nothing shows. If the photos are ones supposedly in a Brownie camera on the Quapaw, they are not what they're cracked up to be - but are archived U.S. Navy images, debunked here. The archived images are great, by the way.

 

I'll try again...pics only.

 

5 more after these

 

Last of them....Thanks

 

Got 'em! Thanks for taking time to share them.

 

My pleasure!

 

Sure wouldn't mind havin one dem "Chimneytop Texaco globes fer muh birthday- HINT .......... scrubba

 

Early speedway. Very cool.

 

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showpost.php?p=8348218&postcount=55796
Crystal Beach Canada

This was out Summer Vacation every other year back in the 50's
What I remember the most was driving on RT 5 East of Buffalo going by the refineries - The smell would make Godzilla puke.

 

A thought.....
Try loading one or two photos. If that is successful then go ahead and try the or four. The error is eating up a ton of bandworth. I, we, would very much like to see what you have found.

Never mind. As I was typing the OP corrected the issue.

 

removed

 

1946

 

Man, those shots of Pearl Harbor are haunting. Thanks for sharing.

 

One of the Last of the Original Tuskeegee Airmen

Lt. Colonel Herbert E. Carter passed away on November 8, 2012 at the age of 95. Col. Carter was one of the original pilots recruited as a member of the 99th Flying Pursuit Squadron, known best as the “Tuskeegee Airmen,” since they trained at the famed Tuskeegee Institute.

Colonel Carter was one of only 4 living member of the original group of pilots recruited in 1942 by the Army Air Corps. (There was no U.S. Air Force until after World War II.) Carter and 32 other men, who were segregated from white pilots, along with hundreds of ground crew and staff would be assigned as escorts for bombers in the European theater.

Col. Carter flew 77 missions during the war. Army policy normally allowed pilots to return to the States after flying fifty combat missions. Because of the scarcity of black pilots - and the result of segregated units - the Tuskeegee Airmen were forced to fly additional missions until replacements could be found. Some Airmen would fly over 100 missions.

Lt. Col Carter retired from the U.S. Air Force in 1969. During his career he received the Air Medal, the Air Force Commendation Medal, a Distinguished Unit Citation, five Bronze Stars, the National Defense Medal, and the Air Force Longevity Award: five Oak Leaf Clusters. In 2007, Col. Carter and 300 other members of the Airmen were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal by President George W. Bush.

An alumnus of Tuskeegee, with a B.A. and an M.A. from the Institute, he would return to his alma mater after leaving the USAF to serve as associate dean of student services, associate dean of admissions and as a financial aid counselor.

Col. Carter was married for 70 years to Mildred L. Hemmons - the first black woman to earn a pilot’s license in the state of Alabama. She passed away in the Fall of 2011.

(Image is from the collection of Lt. Colonel Herbert E. Carter and courtesy of alabamaheritage.com)

Sources: Minnesota Public Radio, AL.com, Montgomery Advertiser, Florida Courier, and Wikipedia

 

R.I.P Col Carter, and thank you for your service.

 

awesome video!!!