French Fortresses (pics!)

F3V · **Posted:** Wed Oct 21, 2009 11:26 am

F-BEEA-44-85643 (in France)

F-BEEB-44-85733 (at RFC Altus in 1947)

F-BEEC-44-85718 (at RFC Altus probably in 1947)

F-BEED-44-83728 (over Orange south of France in 1947)

F-BDRR-44-83757 (at Creil north of Paris France in 1951)

F-BDRS-44-83735 (at Creil)

F-BGSG-42-30177 (at Guam in 1945)

F-BGSH-42-32076 (at Creil)

F-BGSP-44-8846 (at Creil)

F-BGSO-44-8889 (at Creil 13rd July 1964)

F-BGSQ-44-85594 (at Madagascar)

three Fortresses are missing...

cheers,

Pat Carry · **Posted:** Wed Oct 21, 2009 12:02 pm

Nice! Thanks for posting them.

Mgawa · **Posted:** Wed Oct 21, 2009 12:30 pm

Until now I have only few large images of the French B-17 and this is great refresh! Thank you very much

Second Air Force · **Posted:** Wed Oct 21, 2009 12:38 pm

Cedric,

Those are great images. I'm especially partial to the photos taken at Altus, as many brand new Fortresses were stored there. The French aircraft were some of the relative few that escaped the scrapper there.

Scott

F3V · **Posted:** Wed Oct 21, 2009 1:01 pm

There is more image on my web site but I cannot publish them here for copyright reasons or quality reasons

http://b-17-flying-fortress.fr/IGNindex.html

one day I shall translate my texts, when my english will be better

Scott Rose · **Posted:** Thu Apr 28, 2011 12:29 pm

Aw, too bad the images aren't still up, those are exactly what I need!

Pat Carry · **Posted:** Thu Apr 28, 2011 4:54 pm

All I see is red x's.

jdvoss · **Posted:** Thu Apr 28, 2011 5:27 pm

Yes,... little "red x's" that's all I get too. How do I get around them??

tom d. friedman · **Posted:** Thu Apr 28, 2011 10:58 pm

rated x here too!

JohnTerrell · **Posted:** Thu Apr 28, 2011 11:32 pm

Just a friendly reminder, be sure to check the original posting date in any thread you may be looking to respond to...there have been quite a lot of 'old' threads coming back to the front page lately - this one is from October of 2009.

Scott Rose · **Posted:** Fri Apr 29, 2011 7:17 am

JohnTerrell wrote:

Just a friendly reminder, be sure to check the original posting date in any thread you may be looking to respond to...there have been quite a lot of 'old' threads coming back to the front page lately - this one is from October of 2009.

Yeah, the entire WIX is indexed on google, I'm always running into old threads when researching. Also, keep in mind that I will be moving old threads pertaining to specific aircraft into the registry forum as I come across them. Just to try and organize things a bit.

cwmc · **Joined:** Fri Jan 28, 2011 2:43 am **Posts:** 322

Hi Scott,
I wonder if we could find a way to keep the pictures that are on-topic with threads new and old, and dispense with the off-topic blather, BS text that seem to remain forever!
Chris...

Scott Rose · **Posted:** Fri Jun 03, 2011 10:57 am

cwmc wrote:

Hi Scott,
I wonder if we could find a way to keep the pictures that are on-topic with threads new and old, and dispense with the off-topic blather, BS text that seem to remain forever!
Chris...

Hi Chris,
The short answer is that it is possible. The long answer... possible but not easy, it would require pruning each post individually and the time required for that just isn't there. At some point I want to take some of these pictures and make a gallery but it is time consuming, and free time is something I don't have a lot of these days. I'll keep it in mind for the future.

F3V · **Posted:** Wed Jul 06, 2011 4:22 am

Hi guys

I have a new Blog about IGN fortresses, in french only but the english page coming soon, there is many pics!

http://flyingfortress.canalblog.com/

cheers

Cedric

John Kerr · **Posted:** Wed Jul 06, 2011 6:18 am

thanks you Cedric

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