How about a little color

[ktst97]

Very Nice! I see some good ideas for the Tennesee folks for a razorback companion for their two bubbletops... hint hint.

I have seen 3 razorbacks stored at a warbird builder/restorer, one of which belongs to "the Tennessee folks" but I'm almost 70 and I hope I live long enough to see ..............

[Pat Carry]

Great stuff, Mark! Thanks for posting. My favorite is the shot of the Pan Am Clipper over San Francisco Bay. Stunning!!! (and about to become my new computer wallpaper)

I have to agree about the Clipper photo. I also like the 2 B-36's in formation. The shot up German plane junkyard is most interesting.

[Mark Allen M]

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[Rauhbatz]

Just curious if anybody knows the Fighter Group lineage of the green nose P-51s, especially the one with the "Caroline" nose art...(that's my daughter's name)

[Chappie]

In the first batch of photos I love that blon.....ah......Tiger Moth.

In the second--- oh if only they would have saved that Stuka.


Chappie

[airnutz]

Awesome photo of German 104's.

Ummm...errr, didya mean Dutch ?

[CWBuff]

Just curious if anybody knows the Fighter Group lineage of the green nose P-51s, especially the one with the "Caroline" nose art...(that's my daughter's name)

They're from the 370th FS, 359th FG... VIII AF


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[Robbie Stuart]

Here are a few nice clean photos. Lots of great detail.

The Navy aircraft with the "B" tail codes, would those be NAS Atlanta aircraft?

[k5083]

Just curious if anybody knows the Fighter Group lineage of the green nose P-51s, especially the one with the "Caroline" nose art...(that's my daughter's name)

They're from the 370th FS, 359th FG... VIII AF

I like that shot too. Interesting details for the color/markings anoraks. Like how the 4 planes display at least 3 different colors of green on the nose and no two have the same shape of green area. I like the red or orange leading edges of all tail surfaces on the 3rd from the front ("Mary"?).

August

[CWBuff]

I like the red or orange leading edges of all tail surfaces on the 3rd from the front ("Mary"?).

August

I'm a bit rusty with VIII AF schtuff, but I believe that's a 2nd Scouting Force marking. The ship in question is P-51D 44-13795, named 'Little Mary'... she apparently served with the 2nd SF at some point and was later sent to the 383rd FS, 364th FG.


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[CWBuff]

Going back to 'Caroline'... here's a couple more shots of that ship. I found these on the 359th FG Association's Facebook pages.




Both images: Thomas P. Smith via 359th FG Association


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[Mark Allen M]

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[CWBuff]

I was actually thinking the same about some of the others, such as the first P-38 shot in the thread and the Me 163 photo. They both have the look of colorized photos... especially the Me 163. The P-38 photo has some elements which put me on the fence.

As to the P-51 photos I posted, they're genuine color. From what I read on the 359th FG Association's Facebook pages, these were scanned from slides provided by the original photographer... Caroline's pilot, Thomas P. Smith.

Colorized photos are often quite easy to spot, but not always... most 'colorizers' do pretty mediocre work, but there *are* some talented folks out there. And sometimes genuine color photos look faked because they were scanned from a printed source that used funky printing processes. And then there's the issue of the film that was used... or the conditions under which the photos were shot... or processed... or... there's lotsa variables.


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[Mark Allen M]

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[Django]

My professional opinion is that those images in question are all genuine color photos. And fantastic too.