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Post by pdh54 on Sept 10, 2012 7:21:18 GMT 8
We received an email forward from someone Chad works with that has some neat photos from WWII of airplanes. Here is a sample of what can be found at the web address for the Mission4Today forum. Scroll all the pages. They were posted by 'Poor Old Spike-Squadron Leader" out of England. www.mission4today.com/index.php?name=ForumsPro&file=viewtopic&t=14428&finish=15&start=0This one is labeled Clark Field Manila 1939 so is it Clark or Nichols? With all that open land, I assume it is Clark and the fellow who posted this (from England) just didn't know any better.....or I am wrong and I didn't know any better. This one is US bombs Tarawa Enjoy!.......Patty
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Post by okla on Sept 10, 2012 9:23:16 GMT 8
Hey Patty.....That photo is, indeed, Clark. I have poured over many pics, both aerial and from ground level and this photo matches up with some of them. There is an excellent Clark Field website on the Web. I am sure Chad knows all about it. Lots of good stuff pertaining to about everything you could want to know in connection to the Installation that I attempted in vain to be assigned to rather than rotate home from frozen Chosen. That's another story that I have ranted about in the past. Cheers.
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Post by dmether on Sept 10, 2012 11:07:17 GMT 8
Yes, the top picture is Clark, taken in 1939. Three of the hangars still exist.
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Post by Bob Hudson on Sept 10, 2012 15:26:36 GMT 8
Loved the photos Dave. Seen some of them but not in a grouping like that. As I was looking at the photo of the wounded airman being lifted out of the cockpit, the man pulling him out looked like Charleton Heston. Love the B-25 photos. A friend of mine was the crew chief on a restored B-25 in Central California. I took a lot of photos of it. It was the last known B-25 to actually have seen action in WWII but alas, it was in Italy. Those P-38's are wicked looking fighters. Fred Baldassarre has some nose gun footage of a P-38 strafing positions in the Philippines 19445-45. One can even see the returning flak. All those guys had some balls! Thanks for sharing.
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Post by EXO on Sept 10, 2012 20:15:26 GMT 8
The photos were a great selection, and some actually brought back memories. During the 1980's I was in some of the official photo teams for the airshows of the Confederate Air Force. I have had numerous rides, including some in B-25's. In some of them I was assigned the bombardier's position. Those were the days before digital, we were shooting slide film which was fairly slow, and not idea for air-to-air through glass. So often enough, the rides just turned into those experiences that you would promise yourself you'd remember when you got old. At the end of every day we had to hand in our "yield" to the photo team leader, so I never got to relive my rides except by seeing these occasional images.
Thanks for the change of scene!
Some of the images were of CAF aircraft - I see a very nice shot there of Howard Pardue in his Corsair - always readily recognizable for the HP on the tail. Some of those blokes were characters, I used to drink with Merle Gustavson who flew a Vought Corsair F4U-4 "Maid of Okinawa".
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Post by okla on Sept 10, 2012 21:41:06 GMT 8
Hey dmether.....Amazed to know that three of those hangers are still standing after the shellacking Clark took in 1941, 1944-45 and the general reconstruction/expansion/,etc that went on during the Postwar/Vietnam/etc years. I appreciate your input on this Forum. Always good stuff. Cheers
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Post by sherwino on Sept 11, 2012 7:34:56 GMT 8
Good stuff, Patty. I like the Marauder. It looks similar to the Mitchell except for the tail.
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Post by dmether on Sept 11, 2012 8:58:17 GMT 8
Looks like someone took down the pictures, however here is a Google Earth shot of the hangar area on Clark today. Attachments:
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Post by pdh54 on Sept 11, 2012 10:24:24 GMT 8
I redid my original post just now. Can't get those two photos to reappear from Photobucket. Here is another one I like. Can you imagine being on the flight deck with all those props going at the same time? And those sailors are so close to them. Patty
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Post by okla on Sept 11, 2012 10:28:46 GMT 8
Hey D.....Thank you for posting the aerial view of today's hanger area. I have said, previously on this Forum, that I was involved, way back in the Korean conflict, with some bit of photo interpretation duties and to this day I still enjoy looking this kind of stuff over, especially "before and after" images or "now and then" shots. I will spend some time checking this view over and compare with that shot that was taken down from this thread. I have the same view in one of my books. Hopefully I can relocate in all my junk. Thanks again.
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