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Mark Allen M · **Joined:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:48 pm **Posts:** 7824

EDIT: I'm going to start over with this thread. The original facebook post didn't work out the way I would have liked. So I think many of you will like this thread content instead.
This is another great LIFE series with some outstanding photos of USAAF training activities at the Army Airfield at Orlando FLA in 1943.
Source: https://www.facebook.com/Radio.WW2/phot ... 8485361806
Original Photos : Bernard Hoffman - LIFE Collections

Part 1 in no real order

Thomas_Mac · **Posted:** Thu Oct 13, 2016 10:53 am

Hi Mark,

I am on Facebook but your group link is to a closed group so outsiders cannot see its posts and your direct link wont load unless (I'm assuming) you are a member of the group. Just an FYI.

Mark Allen M · **Joined:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:48 pm **Posts:** 7824

Part 2

Fouga23 · **Posted:** Thu Oct 13, 2016 12:10 pm

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Part 3

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Part 4

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Part 5

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Part 6

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Part 7

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Part 8

Chris Brame · **Posted:** Fri Oct 14, 2016 7:16 pm

Here's a coincidence - I saw this on eBay the other day; it has an hour to go:

Edit: Sold for 99¢.

Chris Brame · **Posted:** Fri Oct 14, 2016 7:37 pm

One image was reversed - now fixed:

gemmer · **Joined:** Fri Mar 16, 2007 7:54 am **Posts:** 314

Also the pic of the pair of B-24s in part 4

JohnB · **Posted:** Sat Oct 15, 2016 11:18 am

I love the B-17 fuselage turned into a ditching trainer.
Notice that it and the flying example are both "E"s.

Chris Brame · **Posted:** Sat Oct 15, 2016 4:26 pm

Check the photos again - the B-17 fuselage is a wooden mockup. Looks like it was set up on a small barge to be towed out into the lake for training; but another base had a real fuselage that was used in the how-to-ditch training film. Compared to a real one, the mockup frankly looks like an enlarged version of an Aurora model! :lol:

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