Day to Day Life images

[Edward]

Thought I'd start a thread for day to day goings on... to me images like these tell an even deeper story...

Pilots of the 22nd Photographic Squadron, 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group check the operations board, 8 July 1943.

M Hughes of the 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group, with shrapnel wounds on his forehead, 18 August 1943. Hughes has signed the image.

Personnel of the 379th Bomb Group enjoy refreshments before interrogation Kimbolton, 6 April 1943. American crews waiting to be interrogated on their return from the raid on Antwerp.

Ground crewmen of the 379th Bomb Group gather around a stove in a tent near their B-17 Flying Fortress. Jan 1944. (left to right): M/Sgt. Kenneth Harrison, crew chief, of 734 Commercial St., Danville, Ill.; Pte. John E. Andress, of Greenville, Ala.; Cpl. Bruce Drynan, of 576 Hawthorne Ave., Elmhurst, Ill.; and Sgt. Frank Janish, of 421 Sycamore Street, Buffalo, N.Y.

Lieutenant Robert Walsh of the 379th Bomb Group (son of Hollywood director Raoul Wash) enjoys a cup of coffee after a raid on Germany, 8 January 1944. Printed caption on reverse: 'Hollywood Director's Son Is Bombardier. - Enjoying an oversize cup of coffee, Lt. Robert Walsh, 624 Doheny Road, Beverly Hills, Calif., son of world-famous film director Raoul Walsh (now with Warner Bros.), tells of a "milk run" in Friday's deep penetration into southeast Germany. Reporting no fighter atacks on his group and little flak, Walsh completed his sixth mission as a bombardier since his arrival in England two months ago.

 

[Edward]

Corporal Joseph P. Correa, an interrogation room clerk of the 379th Bomb Group updates the mission board to inform his colleagues that all airmen returned safely from a mission over Berlin.

 

[Brettafett]

Great images there Edward, thanks. You just don't see many repros today looking like this.

 

[Edward]

Major James Goodson, of the 4th Fighter Group plays cards at Debden. Passed for publication 5 Jun 1944. Printed caption on reverse: '...Has Destroyed 30 Nazi Planes.

 

[Edward]

Second lt Robert S. Tussey of the 4th fighter group wears a four leaf clover pendant a gift from his brother a tail gunner in a b-17 flying fortress. 11 april 1944

An airman of the 4th Fighter Group wearing an A-1 flying helmet with a lucky charm.

 

[Edward]

Ground Personnel of the 379th Bomb Group plot a route on a map for the invasion of Europe. A censor has obscured maps and charts visible in the image. Image stamped on reverse: 'Associated Press.' [stamp], 'Press and Censorship Bureau 8 Jan 1944.
Left to Right: Cpl. Russel M. Eastburn, of 226 Encina Ave. Atherton Calif.; 1st Lt. Robert G. Young, of 2412 B Street, Eureka, Calif.; Cpl. Richard S. Turgon, of 4454 Bancroft St, San Diego, Calif. and Cpl. Thomas L. Revane, of 313 East El Camino St, Santa Maria, Calif., sprawl out on their stomachs while plotting a map. They are members of a US engineering unit "somewhere in England".

 

[Edward]

Master Sergeant James L Smith a crew chief of the 379th Bomb Group inspects the propellor of a B-17 Flying Fortress nicknamed "Patches" that was blown off by flak and became embedded in the wing. 8 May 1944 Over France a raid on military installations in the Pas de Calais area But Brings It Home - Embedded In Wing. After the ship had been hit by flak, one of the props flew off, took the tip off then another one and smashed through the wing and radio hatch, just missing the radio operator's head. The pilot of the ship was 2nd Lt. Walter J. Miller Jr., of 1016 Gary St., Shreveport, L.A., and the radio operator who had such a narrow escape was S/S Jack R. Guill, of 1639 Spring Garden St., Greensboro, N. California.

 

[Lebowski]

Very interesting thread. Thanks a lot Edward!

 

[Flightengineer]

Master Sergeant James L Smith a crew chief of the 379th Bomb Group inspects the propellor of a B-17 Flying Fortress nicknamed "Patches" that was blown off by flak and became embedded in the wing. 8 May 1944 Over France a raid on military installations in the Pas de Calais area But Brings It Home - Embedded In Wing. After the ship had been hit by flak, one of the props flew off, took the tip off then another one and smashed through the wing and radio hatch, just missing the radio operator's head. The pilot of the ship was 2nd Lt. Walter J. Miller Jr., of 1016 Gary St., Shreveport, L.A., and the radio operator who had such a narrow escape was S/S Jack R. Guill, of 1639 Spring Garden St., Greensboro, N. California.
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It's amazing how lucky they were that the propeller got stuck in this place. Bit closer ahead, and blade would have broken through the root tank and they would have burned in the sky.
And Miller had to obviously make landing on the clean wing, I think the he could not use flaps.

 

[ausreenactor]

Great to see the Groundcrew represented. AAF Groundcrew had their own range of shearling and cloth jackets issued during the War.

 

[Edward]

Great to see the Groundcrew represented. AAF Groundcrew had their own range of shearling and cloth jackets issued during the War.

Second Lieutenant Owen G Smith (bombardier) , Sergeant Joseph Demmerle (Mechanic) and Technical Sergeant William F. Cole (crew chief) of the 390th Bomb Group in a crew tent near a B-17F Flying Fortress nicknamed "Pulsating Polly".

With the Anglo-American bombing offensive quickening its tempo by day and by night, ground crews of U.S. Bomber Stations in Britain are now living in tents beside their "charges" in order to overcome the time and petrol lost in transporting them from their barracks to the widely-dispersed planes.
T/Sgt. William F. Cole, of Farmersville, La., crew chief of the Flying Fortress, "Pulsating Polly" (seen in the background) sits in the doorway of his tent chatting to Sgt. Joseph Demmerle, (left), mechanic, of Englewood, N.J., and 2nd Lieut. Owen G. Smith, Bombardier, of Norman, Okla. Smith recently hung from the cat-walk of his plane while it was flying at a height of 23,000 feet in order to release an incendiary which had got caught in the bomb bay during a raid on an industrial target in the Frankfurt area.

 

[Cocker]

Great pictures, and great idea, Edward. Thanks a lot!

The pilot on the 2nd picture with the forehead wounds, M. Hughes, isn't he also the 2nd guy standing from left on the first pic?

 

[Edward]

wow! looks like him! could be!

 

[Edward]

The crew of a 97th Bomb Group B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 41-24392) play poker near the tail of their aircraft.

 

[Cocker]

Another picture of Malcolm Hughes, I'm pretty sure now it's also him on first pic:

 

[Edward]

Another picture of Malcolm Hughes, I'm pretty sure now it's also him on first pic:

Nice find Cocker!

 

[Cocker]

Thanks! Also found more info on his wound pictures, as well as a colorized version. Apparently, they were not shrapnels, but hay wounds after bailing out from 25000ft through a storm without googles...

http://www.americanairmuseum.com/media/26482

 

[Edward]

Thanks! Also found more info on his wound pictures, as well as a colorized version. Apparently, they were not shrapnels, but hay wounds after bailing out from 25000ft through a storm without googles...

http://www.americanairmuseum.com/media/26482

Oh my! Holy cow LOL!… Well it may have been a soft landing but a little rough on the face! Glad you made it!
F/O Malcolm 'Doc' Hughes injuries from hailstones during a bailout at an altitude of 25,000 feet, without goggles.

 

[johnwayne]

Do you reckon the crew playing poker are playing to win the D1(?) on the ground?

 

[B-Man2]

I wonder if he turned down a Purple Heart award