England Winter 1944-45
Sun Dec 20, 2009 6:10 pm
B-17G 100th BG Thorpe Abbotts, UK
Re: England Winter 1944-45
Sun Dec 20, 2009 6:25 pm
Dang! That makes me cold just looking at it! The winter of 44 was a cold wet one, I imagine that it really put a damper on the number of missions flown. You think it is bad digging your car out of 8" of snow, try doing a B-17. 
Re: England Winter 1944-45
Sun Dec 20, 2009 6:32 pm
Great pic as always, Jack, makes me wish I had a fireplace, Dam- cold lookin.
Robbie
Robbie
Re: England Winter 1944-45
Mon Dec 21, 2009 5:41 am
65 years on & it would look like that today less the B-17, as we have had snow now for 3 days which if you didn't know is unusual for the UK.
Re: England Winter 1944-45
Mon Dec 21, 2009 7:11 am
Great picture!
Re: England Winter 1944-45
Mon Dec 21, 2009 12:02 pm
Only yesterday the 100th ARW was once again in the snow continuing the legacy with the boxed [D], operating not too far from Thorpe Abbotts @ RAF Mildenhall
Here http://forums.airshows.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=18793
Mart
Reading P-47 Tech Manuals in snowed out Lincolnshire
Here http://forums.airshows.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=18793
Mart
Reading P-47 Tech Manuals in snowed out Lincolnshire
Re: England Winter 1944-45
Mon Dec 21, 2009 12:45 pm
C'mon Jack, haven't you come across any other snowy pics by now? 
I like this one too.
Jack Cook wrote:
Just look at that poor bastard in the cockpit of this 11th AF P-36
I like this one too.
Re: England Winter 1944-45
Mon Dec 21, 2009 4:33 pm
Jack, that is awesome. I drove past the b-17 at Grissom AFB this morning and it looked just like that!
Re: England Winter 1944-45
Mon Dec 21, 2009 4:37 pm
So where's the picture?! 
Re: England Winter 1944-45
Mon Dec 21, 2009 5:06 pm
I should have stopped, but just slowed down and took it in.
great pic!
Mon Dec 21, 2009 5:59 pm
...ah to be in england during the winter...and during WWII...I was born in the wrong time.
Re: England Winter 1944-45
Mon Dec 21, 2009 7:21 pm
jet1, I hear you man.
Re: England Winter 1944-45
Mon Dec 21, 2009 7:34 pm
One Christmas Eve I drove out to Framlingham airfield (I was stationed at Woodbridge at the time). It was pretty cool to be out at the old tower in the dark (I was single and had nothing better to do on Christmas Eve)...
Re: England Winter 1944-45
Tue Dec 22, 2009 3:24 am
Great pic..but it doesn't make me look forward to going out and scraping the freezing rain off my car when I get off work.
SN
SN
Re: England Winter 1944-45
Tue Dec 22, 2009 10:42 am
Perhaps not a warbird, but it gives you a small idea of what winter operations look like here areound Montreal !
Yeah, that's a LOT of snow !!!
But then again, winter flying is so much fun, once you are past the hurdle of shovelling, pre-heating, etc.:
Yeah, that's a LOT of snow !!!
But then again, winter flying is so much fun, once you are past the hurdle of shovelling, pre-heating, etc.: