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.
Pitot tubes for airspeed indication. They fly in undisturbed air so the probes are far from structure that would cause turbulence; directly plumbed into the indicators in the instrument panel.
Reminds me of that film clip from one of the Ploesti raids where you see AAA fire (boo! hiss!!) score a direct hit on the wing root of a B-24 and the wing separates immediately. Poor bastards would have had no chance at surviving that ... May those lost in these two incidents rest in peace and receive our eternal thanks... as may all the dead that have kept us free so far
They look like cable cutters. I'm not sure they bothered installing them on B24's, but they cover the gap out to the inner props, to keep various types of wires/cables from getting to the wing roots and destroying the wings. They were normally only seen on low level ground attack aircraft. Maybe a Ploesti missions aircraft?
Question is, did this b 24 make it back?
ReplyDeleteWell it is a little lighter so that'll ease the fuel situation.
DeleteThis was the Vivienne over Toulon, France on August 6, 1944. It went down shortly after this photo, taking five of its crew with it.
DeleteToulon is also the site of a famous shot of a B-26 just as AA fire separated the right engine, still running, from the ship.
DeleteI've seen this pic before, apparently they were under another aircraft when that aircraft released their bomb load.
ReplyDeleteWhat are the 2 white things sticking out the sides of the cockpit?
ReplyDeleteThe pilots flapping their wings?
Struts to support antenna wire, I bet.
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Looks like fuel venting behind the far right engine
DeletePitot tubes for airspeed indication. They fly in undisturbed air so the probes are far from structure that would cause turbulence; directly plumbed into the indicators in the instrument panel.
DeleteReminds me of that film clip from one of the Ploesti raids where you see AAA fire (boo! hiss!!) score a direct hit on the wing root of a B-24 and the wing separates immediately. Poor bastards would have had no chance at surviving that ... May those lost in these two incidents rest in peace and receive our eternal thanks... as may all the dead that have kept us free so far
ReplyDeleteThey look like cable cutters. I'm not sure they bothered installing them on B24's, but they cover the gap out to the inner props, to keep various types of wires/cables from getting to the wing roots and destroying the wings. They were normally only seen on low level ground attack aircraft. Maybe a Ploesti missions aircraft?
ReplyDeletePitot tubes.
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