discussion The War Illustrated - a selection of photos

[Peter Gillson]

Hi Guys!

i started flicking through the set of The War Illustrated which I acquired recently and thought I would post a few of the more interesting/unusual ones:

How about this for a boxed diorama?


The next two are not photos as such, but I found them interesting ...



Another boxed diorama?

Interesting technical details ...


I had never thought albout 'bailing out' training, a dio perhaps for anybody who bought one of the Lancaster nose models?


Years ago I made a 1/72 scale Udet bouy:

There are quite a few photos from Germany, aquired via the USA, like this one on manouvers:


who knew RAF pilots sat around with dark galsses? Seems sensible:


Peter

 

[Jim R]

They are fascinating Peter. Love that idea to train bomb aimers.

 

[Guest]

There are quite a few photos from Germany, aquired via the USA, like this one on manouvers:

Read the caption under it carefully and then compare it to the photo

the difficulty of hauling even a machine-gun up a few feet of rocky cliff.

About 330 kg of “machine gun”