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Classic Wings Magazine WWII Naval Aviation Research Pacific Luftwaffe Resource Center
When Hollywood Ruled The Skies - Volumes 1 through 4 by Bruce Oriss


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jaldo
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Holy crap, those are great!
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Gotta love those rare color pics 8) ...thanks for posting them!!!

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those are great!! 1 of those pics had swiss markings to the crashed me 109.

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These are quite wonderful! A totally off topic question -- are these scans from prints? Do you know anything about how the photos were originally taken -- what kind of film and what size film etc. As a photographer I'm quite curious -- especially as there seems to be remarkably little fading or shifting of the colors in these 65 year old images!

Are they the Eastern Front?

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Neal Nurmi wrote:
These are quite wonderful! A totally off topic question -- are these scans from prints?

I believe these were taken from 'Luftwaffe im Focus Color Special #1', as they all appear in that publication.

Here's some info taken from the book:

The first two shots show a Bf 110C-5 of 7(H)/LG 2 in Russia during the Spring of 1942 and were probably taken at
Stalino airfield.

The third photo shows a Hungarian Bf 109F-4 of Squadron 5/1.

The fourth and fifth photos show Bf 109E-4 'Weiss 13', the personal mount of Lt. Walter Blume from 7/JG 26. The photos
were taken at Caffiers during the summer of 1940... sometime after Blume's fourth kill on July 25th and before his loss
on August 15th. If you look closely at the cowl panels on the ground, you'll see that the aircraft came home with a souvenir
after its last mission!

The sixth and seventh photos show more Hungarian Bf 109F-4s of Squadron 5/1.

The eighth photo shows a Bf 109G-6/R6 of I/JG 3 during the summer of 1943, possibly at München-Gladbach or maybe
Bönninghardt. Certain details such as the long radio antenna mast identify this as a very early G-6.

The ninth photo shows an Fw 190A-2 assigned to either JFS 2 or JFS 4, probably in the summer of 1942.

The tenth shot shows a seldom-seen Fw 190A-5/U8.


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Those are great pictures. Thanks for posting!!!
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They are brilliant pics indeed. Luftwaffe im Focus is a great magazine, some of the pics they get are just stunning.
There's another colour special coming too :)

If ya gonna post their pics tho, say where they are from.
I also doubt if the owner (Axel) is going to be pleased with you posting them up as they are bought from private collections mostly, unless you did get permission
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Excellent pictures, Jaldo! Thanks for posting.

I just wish Jack Cook were able to "one up" you with some of his cool pics as well. :cry: I just love it when you photo collectors start having competition with each other. :wink:

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I just love it when you photo collectors start having competition with each other. :wink:

Gary


I am one of those that usually comes up with historical photos, too - and I intended to do so quite often due to Jack's forced absence.... but heavy workload prevented me from doing so....

maybe next week....

Martin

PS - thanks for posting these photos, Jaldo !

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... while thinking of it......

here are a few more.... (source is on the pics)

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Now why couldn't they save that Condor?
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How cool would it be to have any of that stuff in the last picture? Heck...in any of those pictures for that matter!

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Those are really great Luftwaffe photos. Thanks for posting them. The Bf-110 shows RATO packs under the wings that were powered by T-Stoff and C-Stoff and were used to assist in faster takeoffs. That is a huge cannon on that Junkers Ju-87 Stuka dive bomber. Can't recall ever seeing one that big on a Stuka before. Really cool! :)

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Great pics. :D


Ztex wrote:
Now why couldn't they save that Condor?
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Not to split hairs but I think it is a Ju 290. Wonder if any survive today?

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