And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Sunday, March 12, 2017
Hard to shoot down
A Liberator limps home from Toulon, France, 8 June 1944
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?
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.
ReplyDeleteLike fine timepieces they are, tick tocking along until hit with flak.
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ReplyDeleteDon'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?
LOTS of good info here:
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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=
Nice link! Thanks!
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