Another Dec 7 upon us. I was going to wait to post these ...

Mark Allen M · **Joined:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:48 pm **Posts:** 7826

... but seeing it is still November it seems appropriate to post them now ... and if you can wait until Dec 7 you'll really see some amazing stuff. (I'll wait to post the really neat photos of the P-40's and B-17's of which many of you have been searching for) The last five photos are not in Hawaii as far as I can tell.
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13th Quartermaster Co Truck-Hickam Field November 1941

17th Air Base Squadron Wheeler Field November 1941

39th Quartermaster Company Hickam Field November 1941

BuzzBy · **Posted:** Tue Nov 19, 2013 1:41 pm

Wow, more great photos!
Awesome.

I believe this is the story on the Y1B-17:

7 December 1936 - First Y1B-17, 36-149, c/n 1973, first flown 2 December, makes rough landing at Boeing Field, Seattle, Washington, on third flight, when Army pilot Stanley Umstead touches down with locked brakes, airframe ends up on nose after short skid. Repaired, Flying Fortress departs for Wright Field on 11 January 1937.[4]
From Wikipedia, with credit to:
Bowers, Peter M., "The Forgotten Fortresses", Wings, Granada Hills, California, August 1974, Volume 4, Number 4, pp.22-23.

Mark, thank you so much for taking the time to share these.
John

Mark Allen M · **Joined:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:48 pm **Posts:** 7826

No thank you John, my part is easy as I just post away. No real effort. Thx for the info. Always appreciated as it's nice to add real data and stories to these old photos. As I've said many times, It's fun to sit back and learn new stuff.

Thanks again

Mark

lmritger · **Posted:** Tue Nov 19, 2013 4:16 pm

I saved all those Wheeler Field pics as well Mark- if you go to the seller's page and select "Completed listings", you will find a whole bunch more goodies in there. Wound up with somewhere over 50 pics... and I am immensely grateful to the seller for scanning them so large!

Lynn

Chris Brame · **Posted:** Tue Nov 19, 2013 6:01 pm

Mark, these are terrific! Never thought I'd see any shots of those A-12s, which were still there at the time of the attack along with the P-26s and B-12s (the book East Wind, Rain shows a damaged P-26 in a hangar).

Pat Carry · **Posted:** Tue Nov 19, 2013 7:11 pm

Those are oh so nice, thanks Mark

CoastieJohn · **Joined:** Fri Feb 11, 2011 5:37 pm **Posts:** 1380

Good stuff Mark. Looking forward to the rest of the pics. Just for grins....you don't happen to have some Duck pics from the Dec 7th timeframe do you? I'm wondering if we maybe able to recognize one as Chuck Greenhill's J2F-4. I've never seen a Pearl Harbor pic of it.

Mark Allen M · **Joined:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:48 pm **Posts:** 7826

Here's the albums these photos came from and as Lynn stated they are on ebay waiting for the highest bidder. These albums belonged to a fellow who was stationed in Hawaii from 1939 thru 1941.

Like I said I'll wait until Dec. 7th to post more but here's one for now.

The Inspector · **Posted:** Tue Nov 19, 2013 9:31 pm

B 307 NX 19901 1st. airframe delivered to PAN AM but bailed back as a test vehicle and spun in fatally in this configuration (2 engines feathered on right side) near Alder, WA. 3/18/39 when it ran out of rudder authority. Test configuration was asked for by the KLM factory rep who died in the crash along with the test flight crew.

Mark Allen M · **Joined:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:48 pm **Posts:** 7826

Here you go.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/RARE-WW2-PHOTO- ... 43c1fa7376

Mark Allen M · **Joined:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:48 pm **Posts:** 7826

I've made an effort to contact the guy to see about acquiring the albums. I agree they should stay intact. See what happens.

50th Reconnaissance Squadron 11th Bomb Group, Hickam Field November 1941

Wheeler Field personel

P-26 B-18 Hickam Field 1940

Bellows Field on Oahu 1941 a taxiing O-47 of the 86th Observation Squadron plus a number of P-40's

B-17s and B-18s at Hickam Field in Hawaii Summer 1941

1941 Hawaiian Air Force 4th Recon 5th Bomb Group B-18 Bombers

Observation tower and hanger at Hickam Field Nov 1941

1941 October photo P40 from Hickam Field out over the Kaiwi channel

Chris Brame · **Posted:** Thu Nov 21, 2013 4:21 pm

I fixed up the next-to-last one a bit:

Mark Allen M · **Joined:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:48 pm **Posts:** 7826

Just noticed something about the Boeing Stratoliner photo. Looks to be that both right side outboard and inboard engines are feathered? Certainly would explain the strong left rudder being used.

The Inspector · **Posted:** Sat Nov 23, 2013 1:05 pm

Obviously you skipped over my posting about the incident under the second post of photos-why do I even try? :roll:

Mark Allen M · **Joined:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:48 pm **Posts:** 7826

I'm sorry, were you guys saying something? :wink:

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