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"My first crash landing. In China, February 3, 1944. Major Weatherly, pilot. Probably at Kunming." Wrecked B-25 MItchell, which should be B-25D-15, #41-30385. Another image of this crash can be seen here. 22nd Bombardment Squadron, in the CBI. Background on this mission (courtesy of Tony Strotman): 22BS_Mission_B-197_44-02-03 Maj Weatherly (C.O.) led a two-ship formation with Lt. Anderson from Yangkai at...
"This one blew a tire on landing. No injuries." Wrecked B-25 MItchell. 22nd Bombardment Squadron, in the CBI.
Salvage of a broken B-24 "WE'REWOLVES", crashed on take-off crash on March 20th, at Panagarh. Upon crash, live bombs were spewed out of the bomb bay. Fortunately the arming pins were still in the fuses. Speculation of some was that the accident was caused by loss of lift due to the negative angle of attack caused by a high speed...
Salvage of a broken B-24 "WE'REWOLVES", crashed on take-off crash on March 20th, at Panagarh. Upon crash, live bombs were spewed out of the bomb bay. Fortunately the arming pins were still in the fuses. Speculation of some was that the accident was caused by loss of lift due to the negative angle of attack caused by a high speed...
Salvage of a broken B-24 "WE'REWOLVES", crashed on take-off crash on March 20th, at Panagarh. Upon crash, live bombs were spewed out of the bomb bay. Fortunately the arming pins were still in the fuses. Speculation of some was that the accident was caused by loss of lift due to the negative angle of attack caused by a high speed...
Salvage of a broken B-24 "WE'REWOLVES", crashed on take-off crash on March 20th, at Panagarh. Upon crash, live bombs were spewed out of the bomb bay. Fortunately the arming pins were still in the fuses. Speculation of some was that the accident was caused by loss of lift due to the negative angle of attack caused by a high speed...
GIs look over devastating crash site of an American aircraft--the bent .50 cal machine gun in one image indicates it is American, and the gun mounting is like that of the nose gun of some B-25 Mitchells. In this image set, the intensity by which people are searching the crash site, and the solemn nature of it all, makes one...
GIs look over devastating crash site of an American aircraft--the bent .50 cal machine gun in one image indicates it is American, and the gun mounting is like that of the nose gun of some B-25 Mitchells. In this image set, the intensity by which people are searching the crash site, and the solemn nature of it all, makes one...
GIs look over devastating crash site of an American aircraft--the bent .50 cal machine gun in one image indicates it is American, and the gun mounting is like that of the nose gun of some B-25 Mitchells. In this image set, the intensity by which people are searching the crash site, and the solemn nature of it all, makes one...
GIs look over devastating crash site of an American aircraft--the bent .50 cal machine gun in the foreground indicates it is American, and the gun mounting is like that of the nose gun of some B-25 Mitchell variations. In this image set, the intensity by which people are searching the crash site, and the solemn nature of it all, makes...