Vintage shots from days gone by!

Gen. Doolittle (2nd from left) and his crew in front of their B-25 before the Tokyo Raid

 

Damaged Dauntless after landing on Yorktown, Battle of Midway

 

Dauntless on USS Essex damaged over Tarawa 1943

 

US women ferry pilots and Helldivers in USA

 

B-17 hit by flak

 

MacArthur, Roosevelt, Leahy, Nimitz, 1944

 

Either your son lives at my house or mine lives at yours or versy-visa. It's enough to make yer head hurt.

 

"Dauntless on USS Essex damaged over Tarawa 1943"
I guess they still were using cloth covering on some of the planes.

 

What is sad is the plane is allready inverted on it's way down. Hope the crew got out.

 

control surfaces - flaps - were fabric for quite some time yet

 

It just might be that the cloth coverings were less likely to sustain as much damage as the metal skins. A projectile piercing metal skin might cause a panel to rip out the ribs and longerons where it is attached while the cloth covering lets the projectile pass through by making a small slit. And the cloth covering probably takes less time to repair.

 

;'

 

lets see more keep them coming

 

Gary, pics aren't showing up in posts 73965, 67 or 68