Aircraft PicturesDiscuss 355th FG pics in the World War II - Aviation forums; Great shots! It's nice to see the earlier models, like the razorback and bubble-canopy mustang....
Great shots! It's nice to see the earlier models, like the razorback and bubble-canopy mustang.
__________________ "I had ten rockets on board, and as I wasn't particularly fond of head-on attacks, I salvoed the whole lot at him. The rockets didn't hit him but but they must have scared the bejesus out of him, for he did a steep turn to starboard... I let him have the full blast, all eight fifty-calibers. I had never seen an aircraft completely disintegrate in the air the way this Me-110 did..."
Bill Dunn, 406th Fighter Group
The first is the only known pic of all of the 2nd SF at Steeple Morden, the second Lt Col John Brooks, former Avalanche B-24 pilot at Ploesti, now 2nd SF CO getting a DSC for a mission in which he and Bill Whalen - only SF air ace - attacked 75+ German Fighters to break up an attack and shot down two each.
Brooks ship YF(bar) X
WR(bar) A was the Whalen ship in which he shot down three on November 26 when battling Erich's cousin in JG301, while flying Whitlow's wing.
Ceglarski was a combined air/ground ace in 2SF flying YF(bar) D.
Whitlow's WR (bar) R taken from 445BG B-24 on November 26 on way home after shooting down one Fw190A8
Castleberry, Rodebaugh and Wilkens each shot down an Me 262
Some more 355fg HQ shots, including Decosta art in O club, Doolittle on WR-B Jane VII, some shots of Galland and a Fw190D, Duffy in a G Suit plus RAF Me109F visiting Steeple Morden in late 1943..
Kinnard's last Man O War about to go home. This ship went down in Korean War.
No Fw 190s to be seen here. This shot shows a Bf 109E.
This photo does not show a JG 27 bird as the filename says; it's from JG 51. The fellow
in the center of the photo is Werner Mölders, and the aircraft is his personal Bf 109F.
Thanks again for sharing these excellent photos with us!
No Fw 190s to be seen here. This shot shows a Bf 109E.
This wan't the shot I meant about Galland and D-9. It's in the second or third batch and just referenced as 355fg Foe Galland. I just looked at original photo I got from Galland via Tolliver and while it was marked (by Tolliver) as D-9 it looks more like an A8 with the outboard gun.
This photo does not show a JG 27 bird as the filename says; it's from JG 51. The fellow
in the center of the photo is Werner Mölders, and the aircraft is his personal Bf 109F.
Great catch - thx.
Thanks again for sharing these excellent photos with us!
I may post a couple more, any particular requests?
Maybe some more battle damage shots Bill... That and some of those excellent gun cam clips....
Dan - I'm trying to find the right device to convert a lot of 355 vcr to DVD - I also have Whisner, Landers, Pompetti, and others from WWII and Korea on 16mm that I need to convert as it is 60 plus years old.
I don't know if you saw the excellent promo film that GD put out re: fighters from WWI all the way through VietNam (leading to "why' F-16) with interviews with Hartmann and Tuck and Parr etc. Several of the shots were from dad's film - which I loaned to them and they lost.
I still have some on VCR but the original film is gone.
hey Bill good to see some of those pics of yours in a larger format...........thanks for the posts as always and hopeful your Christmas was good. enjoying the snow the last couple of days in your spot ?
nice little dump today but gotta run up north for the weekend to visit ailing inlaws
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Drgon you actually have those pics? i think you said your father was in a few? THOSE ARE AMAZING!
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