Thread: 71 year old photos

Fantastic photo's.

My uncle was on Beaufighters, 30 Attack Squadron and he has a lot of photographs he took himself in New Guinea with a Brownie Box camera.
Some are taken whilst on missions strafing Japanese ships and airstrips in the Beaufighter


Cheers, Mick.

wow!!.....um....wow!! Amazing photo's, thank you

Double WOW Fantastic photos Thanks a million for sharing



Gary

Amazing,, thanks

How ballsy is tipping v1,s thank you for posting that

They are indeed great photos but, to quote Snopes:

"For a "sailor" to have snapped pictures from all the perspectives shown above, he would had to have been in the harbor aboard his ship, on the ground, and aloft in an airplane - all while the attack was in progress. Moreover, the ship on which this wide-ranging sailor supposedly served, the first USS Quapaw, wasn't even built until well after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Most (if not all) of these images are readily identifiable as archival U.S. Navy photos that have been available since the early 1940s and have appeared in countless articles and books about the Pearl Harbor attack."

Cheers
KarlB

Thanks! I'm continually amazed by how new things from the war sometimes turn up.

Thanks KarlB

You gotta admit they are great photos nonetheless. May favourites are the snow in Bastogne and that bloody great gun the Nazi's used in Italy - pulled by a train. Forgotten it's name - but it was a big mutha!