Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/07/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mon, 20 Jul 2020 Howard Cummer <hcummer at gmail.com>wrote: >Alan, >These are a wonderful set and the bomber crash was fascinating too. What?s the story there? >Howard ===================================================================================================================== I thought I had explained it in the captions next to the pictures. In Hansa Bay, New Guinea, 28th August 1943, a bomb from the camera plane exploded on the Japanese ship just as a following B-25 was over it, and the blast blew off the wing and tail of the plane, making it roll over, hit the water, and then cartwheel over the other ship. It took me a while, viewing it large, to figure out the sequence of the damage. I had correspondence with the author of "Eightballers", a book detailing the history of the Eighth Photo Recon Squadron that my father was in. He gave me the date, location, and name of the unfortunate pilot. These were some of the (USAAF) prints from his wartime service that my father brought home, along with original negatives of his photos. I've been digitizing the best of therm individually over the past months, as well as two big albums of prints page by page. Also in his collection is a report on daily operations at the Port Moresby base. All their photographic processing and maintenance for the reconnaissance squadron was done in thatched roof huts or tents, under humid jungle conditions. -- Alan Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services (Retired) UPAA Photographer of the Year 1978 UPAA Master of the Profession 2014 amagayneroshak at gmail.com <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/> "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt