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When Hollywood Ruled The Skies - Volumes 1 through 4 by Bruce Oriss


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PostPosted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 8:45 pm 
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This one makes the Atlanta Zero look good!
Saipan 1945. I think every GI on the island hacked a piece off!!
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 9:22 pm 
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Interesting...all those holes look just about the right size for patching bullet or flak damage.

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Needs a little paint, don't it? :)


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Who is the photographer?

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I'll take the '29, thanks anyway.


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nice pic!

note the prop blade behind the stripped-out engine; is that from a B-29?

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Mike,
The photog was Paul Almquist. He was a professional photog in real life but a supply Sgt in the AAf (go figure!). He had a photo studio here in Salem but has been deceased for years.
If I'd turned in a photo like this in photography class I'd get an A just for composition!

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Jack Cook wrote:
If I'd turned in a photo like this in photography class I'd get an A just for composition!


No kidding! I suspect though that people like Paul in their time couldn't snap pictures off like we can today. It was propably part of a more expensive art/past time to carefully consider the subject and compose it accordinginly.

I'll be asking you about the photographers of your other pictures in the other thread. I hope you don't mind.

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Some of "The eye", Many don't :(

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I could use a Zero :P


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How about a title: "Less than Zero"

okay, okay :axe:

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Or half a Zero? Just call it C.


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