Sunday, March 12, 2017

Hard to shoot down


A Liberator limps home from Toulon, France, 8 June 1944

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  1. Modern aircraft (with the exception of the Warthog and the old B-52's) can't sustain that sort of battle damage...and are ruinously expensive.

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    1. Like fine timepieces they are, tick tocking along until hit with flak.

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  2. Strong air frames, but...

    Don't be so sure that this was enemy fire; many of these pics are from aiming point recorders that caught friendlies that strayed into the drop and had a (non-explosive) collision with a bomb on its way down. The damage looks more likely to have been from that sort of impact than from a near miss by AAA, and the ground below looks like it was the target area; any more background on the photo as to the fate of the airplane and its crew?

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    1. LOTS of good info here:

      http://ww2db.com/index.php

      And this is the link to the Liberator photos:

      http://ww2db.com/photo.php?list=search&sp=&startRow=0&keyword=&source=all&color=all&foreigntype=A&foreigntype_id=32&dt=&image_id=

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