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The ultimate in picked over Zeros!!

Wed Apr 13, 2005 8:45 pm

This one makes the Atlanta Zero look good!
Saipan 1945. I think every GI on the island hacked a piece off!!
Image

Wed Apr 13, 2005 9:22 pm

Interesting...all those holes look just about the right size for patching bullet or flak damage.

Thu Apr 14, 2005 10:14 am

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

Thu Apr 14, 2005 10:21 am

Who is the photographer?

Mike

Thu Apr 14, 2005 10:58 am

I'll take the '29, thanks anyway.

hamilton-standard?

Thu Apr 14, 2005 11:21 am

nice pic!

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

cheers

greg v.

B-29

Thu Apr 14, 2005 12:59 pm

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!

Re: B-29

Thu Apr 14, 2005 1:48 pm

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.

Mike

Thu Apr 14, 2005 1:56 pm

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

Thu Apr 14, 2005 3:19 pm

I could use a Zero :P

wiseguy

Fri Apr 15, 2005 6:10 am

How about a title: "Less than Zero"

okay, okay :axe:

Fri Apr 15, 2005 8:44 am

Or half a Zero? Just call it C.
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