Warbird Information Exchange

I guess everyone has probably seen these but a friend sent them to me so I will post here. If this belong to some I will be happy to delete them, just ask.....
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if your over 45 they ended up as 1 of your home appliances as a kid

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tom d. friedman - hey!!! those fokkers were messerschmitts!! * without ammunition, the usaf would be just another flying club!!! * better to have piece of mind than piece of tail!!

Yeah, for years as a kid in the 50's I wondered in the pot my mom cooked oatmeal in might have had 50+ over Berlin-
At the time those pix were taken , whatsa there are just the equlvelant of so many old Piper CHEROKEES, worthless now so lets try and recoup some of our huge investments.............
Time is a ruthless bas*ard aint it?

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Don't make me go get my flying monkeys-

Hey, thanks for sharing those. As it turns out, the only picture out of all of those that I had seen before was the first one. Thanks!

Cheers,

David

I just noticed that photos 3,4,5,& 6 that a few of the P-40's are sporting rocket launchers stubs? I can't ever recall seeing a P-40 set up to fire air to ground rockets...don't mean I never have, it's just that the knees go second, but I can't remember the first thing.........

I suffer from AIDS- Aviation Induced Divorce Syndrome

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Judging by the markings, these were all Stateside training birds. I would assume the rockets were to train pilots who'd be flying rocket-firing P-51s and P-47s in combat.

Sad to see them destroyed, but as The Inspector said, at the time they were just so much old junk. I can't really be too hard on the folks back then..after all, they just wanted to put the war behind them and move on. Most of the WWII vets I've talked to regard thier wartime service as just something they did when they were young, out of necessity. For most of them, thier "real lives" began when they returned home.


SN

Those pics look like a Warhawk concentration camp.

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If God had wanted man to fly behind a flat motor, Pratt Whitney would've built one.

These have been making the rounds recently... the original source for these images is this page from the Walnut Ridge Regional
Airport website. Follow the link that says 'Pictures from the Past # 2'. Unfortunately the thumbnails are gone, but if you pass the
mouse pointer over each, you'll get a description of what the photo shows. Some are more explanatory than others.

Be advised, some of the images are very large, over 10MB.

Anyhoo, there's a number of interesting shots on that page, including a C-47C, some B-32s, and of course these P-40s.

By the way, for the modelers out there, I have a diorama planned of this very scene... just have to figure out if it'll be 72nd or 48th...


Fade to Black...

If I may, the original source is the U.S. government. I believe these photos are from the National Archives and were probably taken by AAF photographers.

In the last P-40 pic are 3 tp-40s.Notice the canopy tracks go through the star on the fuselage.Im really sick now.Also looks as if they torched right through the engine mount lugs and dropped the engines right to the ground.

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Hang The Expense

Yes, indeed these photos were undoubtedly taken by AAF photogs. That would be a given... to me at least.
Perhaps not to others, though.

And prints of these photos may indeed be among the holdings of the NARA.

But that's not what I'm getting at.

I'm simply pointing out that the originating source for these images is the Walnut Ridge Regional Airport website.
The photos that were scanned to make these images are in the collection of the Walnut Ridge Army Flying School Museum.

The fact that there are high-resolution versions of these very same images available for all to see is something that I
thought would be of interest. So I posted the info...


Fade to Black...

Same images or some of them were in a early 80s issue of CAF dispatch. I remember seeing them and it sparked my interest in the boneyards.

Pic #2 shows a P-63 and to the left of it looks like either a P-47 or P-43.


Regards,

I think pic 1 & 2 are majority P-47s with a couple of rows of shorter P-40s in front.
Rich

Just checked the Walnut Ridge site listed by Peter four-oh. In old photos #1 the first picture could very well be either one of the very first B-25's (straight wing) or a really early A as I see a gunners hatch (!?) instead of a dorsal turret on the aft fuselage..............................

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