4 Turning- 1 Burning

[Jack Cook]

B-24J 15th AF Over The Adriatic Sea 1945
Note that the flak hit has taking off part of the #2 cowling

[Oscar Duck]

could be flak or she might just have thrown a jug....

hard to see how flak would hit the upper cowling like that..

[ww2John]

IIRC, flak shells burst omnidirectionally (in every direction - sometimes a sphere), not just "up". That doesn't mean it could not have puked part of the #2 engine.

[Curtis Block]

Not Burning, but not Turning.

[Warbird Kid]

Wow!

Didn't know the CF boys played around with there bombers like that! Or was this actually a problem?

Would be a great airshow display to do something like that! I remember seeing Killer B at one of the Elmira located Wings of Eagles shows. She ended up coming by the show line with only one turning. It was a cool display!

[gary1954]

Saw Tom Reilly at an airshow around Peachtree City a couple of years ago, he flew by us with the right engine out and feathered.

[Curtis Block]

That dark patch running over the wing is oil.

[gary1954]

hmmmm...that then, would definitely indicate a problem has arisen, thus causing pilot to shut down the afore mentioned engine.

[Oscar Duck]

nice to believe everything is 'combat' related however more aircraft were lost through incidents/accidents/mechanical failure than enemy action. The big oil slick gives it away. No oil tank that far forward...

[Curtis Block]

Unfortunatly the smoke that came just before the oil didn't show up that well in a photograph.

[Paul Krumrei]

You can see panels missing on that engine in a close up view.

[Jack Cook]

The caption on the original says 'flak damage'

[Paul Krumrei]

Wow, that is pretty clean flak...must have hit underneath and knocked them off?

Great picture!

[Mgawa]

Few B-24 were lost in that area and even some was crash landed and captured. So Jack Cook image is nice photo add in this way. Do you have larger image?

[Jack Cook]

Yes oh dark one.
But, I can't lay my hands on it at present