These are really, really good. Many I have not seen.
Good Stuff! Thanks for sharing.
81 pages! :eek:
Awesome.
Yeah, I didn’t really realize that until this morning. User PoorOldSpike has been a busy boy!
Wow! Really amazing, and crisp. The clothing and surrounding equipment are really interesting to see, also.
Well, looks like I’m set for the day. See ya.
The Sentimental Journey is a contemporary photo. Don’t know how that snuck in there.
The rest are awesome. Well, the ones I’ve seen…so far…
There are several new photos on there. 
Only up to page 6…keep having to stop so I don’t slack on my inane Dope posting!
That’s what I thought too, and was the primary reason I shared it. What gets me is the faces of these guys (and gals), frozen in time…and they’re all dead by now. Well, almost all of them anyway. Everything from seeing the waist gunner with his warm jacket on in the first page pointing his machine gun out the window, to Rosie the Riveter inside a B-24, it’s all quite compelling, especially when you really think about the context of WWII as a whole and how it affected almost every human on the planet.
I’m still only on page 22. Seeing all these fighters and bombers all loaded with .50 cal machine guns makes me wonder how many guns were produced in the war. Or ever, considering it’s still in use.
Incidentally, there’s a new Dodge Ram commercial that has an F6F Hellcat in it.
1,457,903 M2 .50 cal aircraft machine guns were produced from 1940-45. 4,718 had been made for the US govt from 1934-39. Adding up figures by producer in Goldsmith “The Browning Machine Gun” Vol IV.
That doesn’t count the M2 Heavy Barrel version which is still used now, the water cooled anti-aircraft version of the M2, the relatively small number of M1921 .50 cal Brownings of various versions made in the 1920’s, or small volume commercial export sales pre WWII. Almost 2 million altogether by the end of WWII. Relatively smaller numbers of completely new M2HB’s have been produced from the late 1970’s, along with refurbishing/upgrading old ones.
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Nice! Thanks!
These aren’t up to the standard of the pics in the OP, but here are a couple of my favorites from Martin Caidin’s photographic history of the Air Force:
B-24 scores a direct hit on a bridge from 14,000 ft
B-25 attempting to skip-bomb a train trestle