lot of old pictures found in trash. What is this plane?

carlisle1926 · **Posted:** Wed Mar 21, 2012 10:23 pm

I found about 100 old pictures of aircraft and barrack photos in a trash can. One of the pictures is of a crashed plane that I am unfamiliar with(assume Japanese).What is this plane? Any idea as to what carrier the pictures were taken on? I don't have a scanner, so I just held each picture and took a photo of each one.

RyanShort1 · **Posted:** Wed Mar 21, 2012 10:34 pm

carlisle1926 wrote:

I found about 100 old pictures of aircraft and barrack photos. One of the pictures is of a crashed plane that I am unfamiliar (assume Japanese).What is this plane? Any idea as to what carrier that the pictures were taken on? I don't have a scanner, so I just held each picture and took a photo of each one.

Looks like a Tupolev SB-2 to me.

Supporting evidence:
http://elhangardetj.blogspot.com/2010/0 ... uerra.html
http://forum.valka.cz/viewtopic.php/t/52806
http://www.ejercitodelaire.mde.es/ea/pa ... BE0051AB9B
http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/album/ ... -sb-2.html
http://usuarios.multimania.es/mrodval/GC52502.HTM

Ryan

carlisle1926 · **Posted:** Wed Mar 21, 2012 10:49 pm

I didn't expect it to be Russian. Thanks for the I.D. on the plane Ryan.

Tulio · **Joined:** Mon May 03, 2004 1:05 am **Posts:** 3236

Ryan, you are correct.

First thing I thought when I saw the picture, was Russian, Tupolev something or another. :drink3:

The glazing on the nose is distinctive on this particular model.

Saludos,

Tulio

aeroeng · **Posted:** Thu Mar 22, 2012 6:53 am

Great trash can find.

aeroeng

vg-photo · **Posted:** Sat Apr 07, 2012 8:23 am

Sad to see things like that put in the trash.

Lynn Allen · **Posted:** Mon May 28, 2012 5:12 pm

vg-photo wrote:

Sad to see things like that put in the trash.

I was thinking the same thing, those meant something to somebody....

Rob Mears · **Posted:** Mon Sep 17, 2012 10:04 am

I'm curious about the squadron markings. I don't believe I've ever seen those before. Any ideas?

Barrie MacLeod · **Posted:** Mon Dec 17, 2012 8:53 pm

According to Bill C. Kilgrain's
COLOR SCHEMES and MARKINGS
U.S. NAVY AIRCRAFT
1911 - 1950

In January 1947 letters were assigned to Air Groups on carriers.
Where before USS Tarawa owned the T and it was applied to her aircraft, the T now belonged to CVG-1 on USS Tarawa but in the future could move with CVG-1 if it went to another carrier.

It looks like a 40 on the end of the flight deck and that would be CV-40, USS Tarawa.

Wildchild · **Posted:** Wed Dec 26, 2012 1:48 am

That could also be a Czech B-71...

tom d. friedman · **Posted:** Thu Dec 27, 2012 5:34 pm

nope!! it's a russkie sb - 2 light bomber. i have a bakelite plastic i.d. silhouette model & a couple of i.d. posters of the type. the posters are for sale. original ww2 & in great shape!! 20 bucks + shipping, sent in a tube.

tom d. friedman · **Posted:** Fri Dec 28, 2012 6:02 pm

wow!!! i had to look at those pics again!! there are endless amounts of photo caches / stash out there that have been never seen / or published. you my friend are the jacque cousteau of dumpster diving!! :supz:

1bdvet · **Joined:** Thu Jul 12, 2012 12:16 pm **Posts:** 221

Those pictures are history, and should be put in museum for the next generation to see what greatest generation accomplished.

Canso42 · **Posted:** Mon Nov 18, 2013 9:12 pm

Note the small photos. My dad or a friend in the Navy had a camera that took those, "..something like half a 35mm frame." I've seen a few photos of his from that era in that format.

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