[Leica] IMGS: My Father

[Douglas Barry]

So, this is Frank Scherschel - the photographer - and the camera looks like 
a Speed Graphic but I am unversed in these things. A dapper chappie indeed, 
with spats no less as he was covering a royal wedding at the time. You 
better give him and Life the accreditation they deserve, otherwise thare 
might be more spats :-)

http://cache1.asset-cache.net/gc/53372837-photographer-frank-scherschel-covering-gettyimages.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=OCUJ5gVf7YdJQI2Xhkc2QEKUyyl1ax30UNJtCvkMleTWqIIKKh4lBu5l%2By4DmOF4OvqK1t4GB6cHrVCBvwJuoVOtTmr5XmzVPWqwlrdYV6E%3D

Douglas

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tina Manley" <tmanley at gmail.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2016 3:33 PM
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.
>>
>> http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=32912903&PIpi=14961843
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tina Manley" <tmanley at gmail.com>
>> To: <MUGers at yahoogroups.com>; "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>;
>> "paw" <paw at micapeak.com>; "seephoto" <seephoto at micapeak.com>; "Olympus
>> Camera Discussion" <olympus at thomasclausen.net>
>> Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2016 1:33 AM
>> Subject: [Leica] IMGS: My Father
>>
>>
>> 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:
>>>
>>> http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/163489790
>>>
>>> http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/163489791
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> I'm amazed to see these photos from long ago.
>>>
>>> Tina
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
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