tulsaboy wrote:
Neat pictures!
InvaderHF, what is the source of your photos? Did you find a stack somewhere, or scan some from a government archive? Douglas-Tulsa photographs from WWII are very hard to come by, compared to photos from several of the other major plants from that era. I have been far more interested in the B-24 production at DT than the A-26 production, but love anything DT.
Keep up the good work!
kevin
The photos were originally part of the Douglas Archives. A former employee had a copy of them and gave them to a friend who eventually sold them on ebay. I saw them and immediately reached out to try to purchase the collection so that I could scan them in and share them with everyone. I managed to talk him down to $500 for the set (they're all 8x10s) and got a few donors to help cover it.
I routinely scour auction sites for anything Invader related and buy up as much as I can to include in my online museu.
There's a set of poems I bought last year from a Navigator in Vietnam. Ive got more than 12,000 photos that Im working on uploading as well as tens of thousands of pages of documents and all of the official schematics. I may need fo find a new web host though, my current one limits how many pictures I can store.