Vintage shots from days gone by!

Here tiz'

 

More of the wifes relatives....

 

I'm not certain, but I'd bet a lot that it's Eric Rickman's car, regarding post 51219.

 

So do I! It was an English show called "The Prisioner ". Wonderful Twilight Zone kinda show as we never found out if our hero was ever able to get off the island ............ scrubba

 

I'm looking for a complete listing of B-25 nose art (just in case you might know where I can find it all.) particularly from the Doolittle Raid.

Thx.

 

I'll NEVER forgive Gramma for taking me to the parade that day. I still have nightmares and cannot watch Star Wars movies.

 

One of Doolittles planes was the "Ruptured Duck "My Father had a jacket from that plane one of his friends was on the raid unfortunately it burned in a storage building fire during our move to our first home we lost almost everything in the fire! luckily it didn't spread to the house we were working so had on to move in .

 

Funny how before Diet Coke people were thin huh?

Diggin this thread

Poverty leaves an impression

 

A photo my dad took in about 48 and one wife took last month.
More at www.fredsslides.com

 

same lady? if you think so i have more!

 

Wasn't that the featured plane in the movie about Doolittle's raid "30 Seconds Over Tokyo?" It would have been a cool thing to have but at least the house didn't burn and no one was injured or killed.

 

here's some more

 

Sorry but I have no clue I only found out recently what it was from.My dad gave me the jacket only saying it belonged to a friend of his in the army.Some one on a warbirds forum I visited told me it was one of the Doolittle raiders I found that forum because I was searching the Ruptured Duck after reading a thread on here about "Nose art" I had the Ruptured Duck flight jacket and one from a Tanker friend of my dads that was the "Screw ball" that patch was an 8 ball with a wood screw through it from top left to lower right.My parents divorced before I ever thought to get more information on them as a young kid it was just cool to have real war coats!I have not seen the movie guess I'll have to find it and see if the jackets match!

 

Remarkable images. LIFE magazine? DoD? They look staged for PAO reasons, but still... great stuff. Gary

 

Family pics

 

Found the LIFE pictures here where you can see the full size pictures

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/43fdc9f8f4fc30c3.html

 

Yep
Sept 1957, Ak Miller in Rickman's Olds powered Vette on the dyno.
Engine built by Ed Iskenderian. Trans was a B&M hydro






May '58 with Von Dutch paint

 

Try this-----Google: WINGS PALETTE-North American B-25 Mitchell-USA.

Lots of info there---Including Doolittle raid.----Don

 

I dunno about that.I went to my first drag races in decades last year and again this year...I can't tell you how disappointed and disgusted I was with that bracket bullshit.