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A few more WW II plane pics: of my dad

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redtom

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The photos of the plane below got me thinking of my dads photos. Here's a few. No real good plane shot but interesting none the less. Its him after he soloed in the Stearman Primary trainer. Then his graduation photo from Bomber school. He was a B-17 pilot. The photo of the tail is an actual pic of the tail off his plane in a German field. Not the plane in the grad photo but it was a brand new plane. One fact we now know is the German's were meticulous record keepers. The only crewman lost on shoot down was a Jew, executed on the ground. His nephew went there recently and found the photo in an archive.
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A friend of mine little Jewish inventor (invented a bagel machine was on Ed Sullivan show), went to England before the US entered the war wanted to be a pilot and flew Mosquitos but only as a mechanic he never got to fly combat. Interesting guy passed away some years ago.
 
My mother's younger brother was a gunner on a B-17 and was kill in April of 44 when their plane was shot down
 
My FIL was a rear gunner on a SBD dive bomber in the Pacific. One of these photos is of a crash he was in in a soybean field (locked controls). In mid '44 he came back to the states to train in SBCs. He survived an inverted landing in one of those (hit power line). Half his squadron was wiped out in training accidents. Statistically he was safer in combat than in training.
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The photo below is of my father's B17 crew taken after their second bombing mission over Rome, Italy August 13, 1945 on the South End San Lorenzo Marshaling Yards.

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Here is another photo of RHOMAR 2.

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