BlitzKrieg

[Jean le rouge]

Quelques photos :




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Boissier : Et maintenant qu'est-ce qu'on fait ?
Mahuzard : On continue la mission.
Les morfalous

[Tassin]

Impressionnant !! oO'
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Tu parles, le canon. Je sais même pas comment il marche le canon.

[clem1945]

Waouh d'où viennent ces photos !

[LUG76]

Images tirées d'un film d'une attaque de bombardiers en Nouvelle Guinée...

J'arrive pas à retrouver le film sur Youtube, c'est là dessus que j'avais
vu ces images... Terribles d'ailleurs, aucunes chances pour l'équipage.

Ce sont des Douglas A20 Havoc il me semble ces avions...
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Anciennement Chewbacca, mais j'ai changé de fournisseur internet, donc plus l'adresse E Mail pour récupérer mon Mdp...

[sunihanble]

Salut
A l'origine des photos en noir et blanc

https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/22-july-1944/



22 July 1944: During an air attack on a Japanese seaplane base and barge landing at Kokas, Enga, Dutch New Guinea,
a Douglas A-20G-25-DO Havoc light attack bomber, serial number 43-9432, was hit by anti-aircraft gunfire and crashed into the sea.

The pilot, 1st Lieutenant James L. Knarr 0-797844, on his 70th combat mission, and gunner S/Sgt Charles G. Reichley 13093592 , on his 46th, were killed. The A-20, named 'Bevo', had been assigned to the 387th Bombardment Squadron, 312th Bombardment Group, based at the Hollandia Airfield Complex.

The photos taken of the incident and were actually meant to capture the bomb damage. The other A-20s, involved in their own runs and evasive maneuvers were unaware of the fate of this A-20, until the photos of the mission were developed.�� A series of four photos, taken by another A-20 ahead of it captured the plane's last moments in the air. The A-20 piloted by Capt. Jack W. Klein) that recorded the pictures returned with 128 holes from gunfire. The other A-20 in the photo was Knarr's wingman, 2nd Lt. Melvin H. Kapson, who made it back to base undamaged. These photos were later released to the media and appeared in Yank Magazine and TIME Magazine in support of the war bond drive captioned "Death of an A-20".

The Douglas A-20G Havoc was a twin-engine light bomber developed from an earlier export aircraft produced for France and Britain. (In British service, it was known as the Boston. 7,348 A-20s were built at Douglas Aircraft Company plants in Long Beach, El Segundo and Santa Monica, California, from 1939 to 1945. All 2,850 of the A-20G variant were built at Santa Monica from 1943 to 1945.

(Photo source - US. Air Force)
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