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Lots of great wartime photos. Warning: major time waster.

http://www.vintagewings.ca/VintageNews/ ... n-Rut.aspx

Thanks. Very very cool.

About the best i can hope for now...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugsQQKn0muQ

BAWLZ!

My grandmother's husband, who just passed on was a ground attack pilot in Italy during the war, in P-47s and then P-51s' (Yes, when I first saw "Private Ryan" I shouted "Grampa Bill to the rescue!")

As a little shit I kind of thought he was a second stringer next to guys who fought against other aircraft, until I got older and read more.

Yeager and others I've read all said they would rather face a German Ace then go low and tear shit up. They said you had a better chance of getting shot down, wrecked or hit yourself as you now had to worry about small arms fire , the shit you hit blowing up and pieces flying into you, smoke and fog making you misjudge and putting you into the dirt and when your down that low, enemy fighters can come down on you like birds of prey.

Bill used to drop 500# bombs on German tanks, pilboxes, troop formations and trains and I remember him saying he was involved in the first angry use of the precursor to Naplam.

A very mild mannered, peaceful man who always told me he prayed to God I'd never have to go to war. He was proud of his service, believed in what they were there to do but fucking hated war, violence and killing but he said he missed flying, that part he loved.

Great photos!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zfd8bANNgJY[/youtube]

Awesome pics; thanks!