Thinks happen: Lost Gallery

For the first ten days of 2009, Thinks Happen will feature the most visited blog pages of the two blogs, Thinks Happen and Lost Gallery. This will be in Letterman style, least-to-most, with the most visited page on January 10.

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From LOST GALLERY October 4, 2007, here's number NINE!

Here is a set of 327 photogaphs scanned from one of two very carefully kept files of 35mm negatives. Most of the photographs in this set are of aircraft in world war two.

The date is late 1944.

The negative files were found together at a flea market. These marvelous photographs were on the brink of being lost forever.

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history and identification
of some of the photographs in this AAF collection.

The 205 negatives in the other file were taken postwar, about half in England and the rest in Texas, USA. The photographs apparently show a bit our touring before leaving the England based AAF unit and the first photographs after arriving in Texas.

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postwar photography
from the other negative file from the same photographer.

This is a P-61 "Black Widow"

This one was nicknamed "Wabash Cannonball IV"

This is a B25 Maurader, not a common plane or popular. There were only about five thousand of them made.

They were famous for handling problems and gained the nickname "Widow Maker."

These are the aircraft photographs from the set:

These are the other various subjects from the set:

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You can leaf through the set and read any additional comments by clicking on the arrows in the control bar.

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