"Flak Damage" Friday!! ...

[Mark Allen M]

71st TRG P-40N flak damage 2-20-1945.


Leading Aircraftman R.P. Coulson removes the guns from a Canadian Spitfire damaged by flak.


SBD aircraft (Bu# 54088) damaged by enemy anti-aircraft fire. Photograph released June 18, 1944.


F6F-3 VF-29 #25 Battle Damage Landed USS Intrepid 25-OCT-1944.


OS2U Kingfisher Float Plane off Attu Island 1943 with combat damage.

[phil65]

Its amazing they made it back...

Phil

[Mark Allen M]

B-25 Mitchell/43-28080 after suffering flak damage. I believe this happened off Corsica.


B-25 with tail damage.


TBF-1 at Munda with damaged wing as result of AA fire Oct 1943.


Curtiss SB2C-1C Helldiver/Bu. 18208 of VB-15, after their first combat against Japanese targets on Marcus Island May 20, 1944


Curtiss SB2C-1C Helldiver/Bu. 18208 with it's tail feathers a bit worse for the wear.

[Mark Sampson]

That B-25 had a tail-gunner, once. RIP.

[Jim MacDonald]

SBD aircraft (Bu# 54088) damaged by enemy anti-aircraft fire. Photograph released June 18, 1944.

The SBD was from VMSB-245 and was damaged by 90mm AA during an attack on heavy AA on Emidj Island, Jaluit Atoll on 17 Jun 44. The pilot was 1st Lt. J.H. Mathias, he and gunner where uninjured. Plane was damaged beyond repair and stricken.

Mac

[Pat Carry]

Thanks Mark!

[Aeronut]

From the look of the damage and all the mud on the wing, I 'd hazard a guess that the Spitfire was damaged on the ground by artillery or strafing (Bodenplatte?).

[Mark Allen M]

From the look of the damage and all the mud on the wing, I 'd hazard a guess that the Spitfire was damaged on the ground by artillery or strafing (Bodenplatte?).

I'd hazard a guess you're right!!