Picture of the day
- Thread starter jwhc
- Start date
Dark Alley Dan
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Darkest Edmonton
Does indeed look posed. Buddy with the teeny pistol isn't making any use of cover, and neither is the cameraman.
What exactly is Herr Fliegertechnician doing here? Boresighting?
"Day six - der Kapitan's knockvurst is shtill mizzing. Ve continue ze search, but are now reduced to checking ze mozt unlikely plazes..."
What exactly is Herr Fliegertechnician doing here? Boresighting?
"Day six - der Kapitan's knockvurst is shtill mizzing. Ve continue ze search, but are now reduced to checking ze mozt unlikely plazes..."
Last edited:
I'm not sure what he is doing, but that is a Bf-109 and they had a F/A 20mm cannon in there with 60 rounds of ammo.
The little whatzis is in the blast tube, so likely he is checking bore condition or checking it for CLEAN prior to ammo-ing up and taping the muzzle or whatever they did to keep the mice out.
You can see both engine cowlings open and up, so he is getting daylight in there for a reason.
The little whatzis is in the blast tube, so likely he is checking bore condition or checking it for CLEAN prior to ammo-ing up and taping the muzzle or whatever they did to keep the mice out.
You can see both engine cowlings open and up, so he is getting daylight in there for a reason.
Hmmm ... I think it is some sort of periscope bore sighter. Take note that there is a lens pointing outward. The cowling might be open in order to adjust the alignment of the gun. And if it were a device to look down the bore, why have a periscope setup when you could just look straight in?
That is exactly what he is doing. the periscope arrangement on the collimator is needed probably because you can't get your head/eye in the other side of the cannon.... 
if you head over here: http://www.bild.bundesarchiv.de/cross-search/search/ and search for me-109, this image is htere and a bunch of others of maintenance etc. [in German]
if you head over here: http://www.bild.bundesarchiv.de/cross-search/search/ and search for me-109, this image is htere and a bunch of others of maintenance etc. [in German]
Last edited:
Um, is that dark, chunky patch on the sidewalk his brains? Poor fellow.
Possibly. Thought I'd start posting some 'darker' photos. For something we see as a novel milsurp piece in a collection today, was for a generation before us a matter of life and death. I think it's best for all of us not to lose sight of that.
Should have posted the caption:
I've been trying to find his name, no luck so far.
It's fair to say that's definitely what happened.
I agree with your approach. It's important to remember the horrors. It would be nice to have his name in commemoration.
looks like he was dragged to cover, and the blood was smeared from the dragging.
Santoneski
Regular
- Location
- Hamilton, On
his comrades probably tried to drag him to cover when they realized he was hit. Then realized he was KIA so they left him cause they only moved him a couple feet. Or he was there before cause where is his weapon?
The fellow on the left is my father. He was a mid turret air gunner. Its 576 Lancaster bomber squadron out of Fiskerton England. Late 1944 or early 1945.
He died last year. There is only only one of them left now.
His nephew set up a web site www.raffiskertonairfield.co.uk which has alot of info about them.
Last edited:
My Parents:
Pvt L. Helen Gray CWAC, signals
One of only 3 companies of women in the CWAC to go overseas.
She worked in Cdn Army HQ, Canada House London during the Blitz and
once returned to barracks to find them gone.
Flt Lt. George H Peck, 404 Squadron, Mosquitos and Beaufighters.
3 crashes, one in Flames and walked or dinghied away from all of them.
Britain, Europe and North Africa.
