American Aircraft Photos WWII, Page 2

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   Shown below are photos of American aircraft and personel from the Second World War. I am offering enlargements of these historic photos for sale.
   It is because of the efforts of those who served, here or overseas, and the sacrifices of Americans everywhere during that conflict, that America, today, is a free country. Admiration for their accomplishments should never abate. These photos are a partial record and it is my hope that they will help keep the memory alive. Please read the caption to see what each photo is of. If you want to see a larger version of the photo please click on the image.
   All photos © Sea Bird Publishing, Inc. 2001 All rights reserved.
   The Sea Bird Publishing, Inc. logo DOES NOT appear on the finished print. I added it to the scans only.
   New 8"x10" B&W digital enlargements are $15.00.   Scans are $12.50 each irregardless of size. I can attach them to email (if there aren't many), FTP them to a site of your choice or burn a CD and mail it ($10.00).
   Enlargements are sold with one time re-print rights only.
   In the USA priority mailing of carefully packed photos, with tracking, is $5.50 for up to a pound of prints. That's about twelve 8"x10" photos. Your photos can also be shipped first class if you prefer. Request first class for mailing quote.
Use the web page name and number of the scan below to order.
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   Thanks for stopping by and checking out the photos. Be sure and check out the other pages of photos in this web site (links are at the bottom of the page).
   Here are links to some great, informative web sites you can go to learn more about the types of aircraft shown below and the men who flew them.

XIII AAF Heavy Bomber Squadrons
13th AAF, The Jungle Air Force
13th AAF, 67th Fighter Sq., R. Johnson
5th AAF, 38th Bomb Group Site
5th AAF, 43rd Bomb Group Site
Warbird Resource Group
B-24 Best Web
WWII Aircraft Archive
USAAF Chronology
Web-Birds.Com
The United States Army Air Forces in WWII
The Air Force in WW II
Joe Baugher's Home Page (Great lot of Aircraft serial number links)
Col. "Hub" Zemke's Air Force bio
The WWII Fighter Gun Debate (incredibly informative)
20th Combat Mapping Squadron
13th Bomb Squadron Association
M.J. Claringbould's Aerothentic Publications

Photo 1. From an original nitrate negative. Pilot and copilot in the cockpit of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bomber.	Photo 2. From an original nitrate negative. Three Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bombers in formation. There is some damage to the emulsion on this negative evident in the print.	Photo 3. From an original nitrate negative. View of a B-17 Flying Fortress.
Photo 4. From an original nitrate negative. View of a B-17 Flying Fortress. There is some damage to the emulsion on this negative evident in the print.	Photo 5. From an original nitrate negative. View of a B-17 Flying Fortress.	Photo 6. From an original nitrate negative. View of a B-17 Flying Fortress. There is some damage to the emulsion on this negative evident in the print
Photo 7. From a copy negative. A view of a B-17 Flying Fortress on Biak Island off the coast of New Guinea.	Photo 8. From a copy negative. A view of a B-17 Flying Fortress on Biak Island off the coast of New Guinea.	Photo 9. From a copy negative. A view of Lockheed P-38 Lightnings on Biak Island off the coast of New Guinea.
Photo 10. From a copy negative. View of a B-29 Superfortress in the 20th AAF, 500th Bomb Group at Isley Field, Saipan, Marianas Islands. Photo taken between Sept. 18, 1944 and Oct. 21, 1945.	Photo 11. From a copy negative. Another view of the same B-29 Superfortress in the 20th AAF, 500th Bomb Group at Isley Field, Saipan, Marianas Islands. Photo taken between Sept. 18, 1944 and Oct. 21, 1945.	Photo 12. From a copy negative. An all black Douglas A-20 G or H model Havoc prepares to take off from the airfield on Biak Island off the coast of New Guinea, 1944. In the back ground P-38 Lightnings await their next mission.
Photo 13. From a copy negative. A Douglas A-26C Invader fitted with bomb racks waits on a runway in the S.W. Pacific. Anyone with any more info on this aircraft who feels like sharing please email me I'll happily give you credit on this page.	Photo 14. From an original nitrate negative. View of a Douglas A-26B Invader early "flat top" model with a 6 gun nose (thanks very much to Don Henderson) at the victory exposition held under the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France shortly after the close of WWII in Europe. Special thanks to T/Sgt. Frederick L. Stemler 33185881, the Crew Chief of the A26 #354 - on Body 2A-S (Tom Swift's Flying Machine) who wrote: "I was in Oklahoma City when the 416 Bomb Group 669 Bomb Squadron was formed. We went to the ETO in Jan. 1944. We flew A20 Douglas airplanes, the first A20 Group in ETO. On Sept. 15th we went to Melun, France. On Nov. 1, 1944 the 416th Bomb Group converted to A26 Douglas Invaders. At that time I was assigned Crew chief of A26 #354 airplane. We were the first A26 Group in the world. The Group flew the first mission on Nov. 17, 1944 with the A26 plane. I named the plane for the pilot Lt. Skip Hackley (living in Fla.) for personal reasons. At the end of WWII the airplane was taken to Paris for display under the Eiffel Tower. The 669th Squadron emblem "Sure Shot Sully" (a cowboy on a horse throwing a bomb) was painted on the other side of the nose of the plane. The airplane flew 59 missions."	Photo 15. From an original nitrate negative. A Republic P-47 Thunderbolt at the victory exposition held under the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France shortly after the end of the WWII in Europe. This aircraft arrived at Boxted, England after VE Day so it never saw combat but since it was already coded the same as Col. Hubert "Hub" Zemke's P-47, UN-Z, it was painted up for the exposition in the colors of the famous 56th Fighter Group, the "Wolfpack", that Zemke was in command of and which led all other fighter groups in the European Theater of Operations in air-to-air victories.
Photo 16. From an original nitrate negative. A Republic P-47 Thunderbolt in flight over Belgium. Early Fall 1944.	Photo 17. From an original nitrate negative. A Martin B-26 winds up its engines as it prepares to take off from an airfield in Europe. D-Day invasion stripes are visible on the aircraft. (thanks to D. Spalinger) Early Fall 1944.	Photo 18. From a copy negative. Chance Vought F4-U Corsairs on a South West Pacific island. ca.1944. Anyone with any more info on these aircraft who feels like sharing please email me and I'll happily give you credit on this page.
Photo 19. From an original 4"x5" acetate negative. View of the nose of a Bell P-39 Airacobra. ca. 1943.	Photo 20. From a copy negative. View of a Curtiss P-40 Warhawk "Belva" #210476 on the tail. Pilot F/O W. Swallowreed. Anyone with any more info on this aircraft who feels like sharing please email me and I'll happily give you credit on this page.	Photo 21. from a copy negative. Curtiss P-40 Warhawk "Belva" and a member of her ground crew. Anyone with any more info on this aircraft who feels like sharing please email me and I'll happily give you credit on this page.
Photo 22. From a copy negative. North American P-51 Mustangs on a Western Pacific Isle. ca.1945. Anyone with any more info on this aircraft who feels like sharing please email me and I'll happily give you credit on this page.	Photo 23. From a copy negative. Republic P-47 Thunderbolt "Nasty Nancy" and ground crew man. Could he be the artist? Anyone with any more info on this aircraft who feels like sharing please email me and I'll happily give you credit on this page.	Photo 24. From a copy negative. Republic P-47 Thunderbolt "Nasty Nancy" and some American military personnel. Her ground crew? The aircraft is parked on Marston Matting. Anyone with any more info on this aircraft who feels like sharing please email me and I'll happily give you credit on this page.
Photo 25. From a copy negative. Northrup P-61 Black Widow night fighters and a Douglas C-47 transport on a Western Pacific Isle.	Photo 26. From a copy negative. Northrup P-61 Black Widows in the 548th Night Fighter Squadron parked on a Western Pacific Isle.The plane on the far left is Midnight Madness. A P-61A 42-5610 of the 548th NFS. It was lost 4/20/45. Thanks to Jeff Koln for this info. Buy his great book from Schiffer "The 421st Night Fighter Squadron In World War II." You can find it here.	Photo 27. From a copy negative. Douglas C--47 Skytrains parked at an airfield on Biak Island off the New Guinea coast. 1945
Photo 28. From a copy negative. B-24 (F-7A) "T S (Tough Shit) Sympathy and Remembrance" serial #42-64051 of the 20th Combat Mapping Squadron (Flying Dumbos) assigned to 1st/Lt. William A. Wilson, Crew Chief S/Sgt. Julian Langdon. This was the first aircraft of the 20th CMS to arrive in the South West Pacific Area. It is shown here after Sept. 1944 on Biak Island. Many thanks to Michael J. Claringbould for this info. If you don't already have his books you need copies. Get them here.This guy is the authority on the 5th AAF.	Photo 29. From a copy negative. Two B-24s in the 13th AAF, 307th Bomb Group (Long Rangers) on Biak, 1945. Anyone with any more info on these aircraft who feels like sharing please email me and I'll happily give you credit on this page.	Photo 30. From an original 4"x5" acetate negative. Nose art on a B-24 in the 13th AAF, 307th Bomb Group, 372nd Bomb Squadron. This is the aircraft to the rear left in photo 29. Anyone with any more info on this aircraft who feels like sharing please email me and I'll happily give you credit on this page.
Photo 31. From an original 4"x5" acetate negative. B-24 in the 13th AAF, 307th Bomb Group, 370th Bomber Squadron. Ca. 1943. For more info on this aircraft and her crew click here.	Photo 32. From a copy negative. The ignominious end of B-24J 155 CO "Million Dollar Baby" serial #44-40305 in the 5th AAF, 43rd BG, 403rd BS. Photo taken on Biak Island in 1945. Photo caption reads "B-24 grave yard. What waste of equip. Salvage? You ask me!"	Photo 33. From an original 4"x5" acetate negative. Nose art on a Navy PB4Y-1 (USN B-24 Liberator Bomber), BuNo: 32276 (42-110012), "Comair Wolfpac II" in VB-115. Thanks to Jim Augustus for this info. Here is another photo of the same aircraft on Jim's great site (click here). Anyone with more info on this aircraft who feels like sharing please email me and I'll happily give you credit on this page.
Photo 34. From an original 4"x5" acetate negative. Nose art on a B-24 Liberator Bomber in the Far Eastern Army Air Force "Shady Lady." Anyone with more info on this aircraft who feels like sharing please email me and I'll happily give you credit on this page.	Photo 35. From an original 4"x5" acetate negative. Nose art on a B-24 Liberator Bomber in the Far Eastern Army Air Force "The Snooper." Anyone with more info on this aircraft who feels like sharing please email me and I'll happily give you credit on this page.	Photo 36. From an original 4"x5" acetate negative.. Nose art on "Two Time," a B-24J-165-CO Liberator Bomber in the 13th Army Air Force, 5th Bomb Group. Serial number 44-40546 (Thanks very much for this info M.J.C.). Anyone with any more info on this aircraft who feels like sharing please email me and I'll happily give you credit on this page.