[Leica] IMGS: My Father

[John McMaster]

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From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+john=mcmaster.fr at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Tina Manley
Sent: Sunday, 19 June 2016 4:34 p.m.
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] IMGS: My Father

Thanks, Douglas.  I don't know anything about the camera but the photo is a part of the Frank Scherschel - LIFE Collections

There is more information here:
http://www.americanairmuseum.com/media/21590


And the plane is a P47 Thunderbolt.

1st Lt Pierce L Wiggin aboard his P-47C 41-6541 VF-A, 336FS, 4FG, 8AF USAAF.

Tina

On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 8:38 AM, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:

> They're excellent images, Tina. A brave man. A couple of questions 
> that you may or may not be able to help with, what was the plane he's 
> in and what was the camera used?
>
> Douglas
> whose uncle ran away from home in neutral Ireland to join the RAF at 16.
> He was cycling towards the border with Northern Ireland and the 
> recruitment office in Belfast with a similarly inclined friend when he 
> was stopped by the Gardai (Irish police). His friend's brother who 
> knew of the plans had spilled the beans to his parents who immediately informed my grandfather.
> My grandfather also happened to be Chief Superintendent of the Gardai 
> and head of the LSF during what we neutrals in Ireland euphemistically 
> called "The Emergency" (others may better remember it as World War 2). 
> He got on the phone and a couple of Gardai were detailed to wait 
> unobtusively on the main Dublin Belfast road a couple of miles before 
> the border to halt their gallop. He could have had them picked up 
> earlier, but apparently wanted to "give the young fellows a bit more exercise".
>
> Sadly, a couple of years later, my uncle left school, joined the 
> cadets in the Air Corps (Irish Air Force) and was killed in an air 
> crash soon after going solo in a Miles Magister in 1944. It badly 
> affected my grandfather who forbade my mother from taking up a job as an airhostess with Aer Lingus.
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> http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=32912903&PIpi=14
> 961843
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tina Manley" <tmanley at gmail.com>
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> Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2016 1:33 AM
> Subject: [Leica] IMGS: My Father
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> PESO:
>>
>> My sister was Googling our father's name and came across some 
>> wonderful photos of him that we have never seen before.  Just in time 
>> for Father's
>> Day:
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>> http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/163489790
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>> http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/163489791
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>> He looks about 15 years old to me!!  He did run away from home, lied 
>> about his age, and joined the Royal Canadian Air Force at 17, 
>> switching to the RAF later.
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>> I'm amazed to see these photos from long ago.
>>
>> Tina
>>
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