After the popularity of the "Best Fighter Picture of WW2" and as well taking into account the wishes of some of the forums luminaries such as Peter Clare, I feel duty-bound to start a sister thread for the best Bomber pictures. So it is search your hard drive time again peoples!! To try and get the ball rolling, here are a few of my all-time favourite bomber pictures... 1. A flight of Wimpeys which I have always found stirring. 2. A superb Blenheim. 3. Junkers JU 86 K - A great photograph of a poor bomber! I think the K variant denotes either an export model or possibly a Swedish built plane.
B-17 is a great aircraft in my book. It always amazed me the damage they could sustain and still come home. Not to doubt the ability or barvery of any pilots during WW2 but to fly these on Day Light raids over Germany gets my bravery vote too.
I have to agree Andy, the Fort was a fine aircraft and as you rightly say could definitely take a lot of punishment and still make it home... The picture below shows an RAF Fort. Funnily enough that was always my opinion of the Wellington. Its geodesic construction provided undoubted strength and resiliance...
Of course, my first choice has to be the B-24 Liberator. Built in greater numbers than any other war time aircraft, it served in every theater during WW2 and as far as I am concerned the most important statistic, the Liberator destroyed more U-boats than any other aircraft. AM929. H/120 itself killed 2 U-boats during her career. The first was the best, the Liberator I. Serials AM910 - AM929 the only true very long range (VLR) aircraft the RAF had on charge during the war. First pic B-24 LB.30B Second pic Liberator I. AM923 W/120
Second to the Liberator comes the Lancaster..... ..... Seen here is Lancaster GRV RE186 of the School of Maritime Reconnaissance.
That is one huge mother of a photo. Not so sure if they are strictly bombers but always glad to see the Sunderland , especially one "on the step" at Castle Archdale getting a mention. For me it will have to a suitable photo of the Halifax.
It DLed on my ancient PC in an instant (P4 2.8 GHz) but then my connection is 300 Mb/s. I found it in Firefox which sized it to fit my screen so I didn't notice how large it was until after I hot linked it. I think it's part of a sequence of shots taken from a sub after a mid ocean rendezvous. ( It also could carry bombs, or at least 1 X 500 lbs for anti-shipping so that should sort of qualify it, right?)
Gage do you think that picture is genuine.....I read somewhere its a German fake. I've never read or heard that it is anything other than the true article. I suppose anything is possible thou.
There's a web page somewhere that I've seen where someone examines the background and in particular a football pitch that can be identified. Apparently there should be a roof over one of the sets of bleachers by 1940 but by examining the photo this roof appears to be missing. I may be able to find the link on my computer at home.
There's a web page somewhere that I've seen where someone examines the background and in particular a football pitch that can be identified. Apparently there should be a roof over one of the sets of bleachers by 1940 but by examining the photo this roof appears to be missing. I may be able to find the link on my computer at home. Airminded ยท Trouble at Millwall It looks real to me but make your own minds up.
In my book .... If its big its a bomber...If its small (yep you guessed it) its a fighter Cheers Andy
The Halifax , a great aircraft , lacking some of the qualities of the Lancaster which was an outstanding aircraft - the Halibag none the less provided an effective and sturdy bomber , certainly any who flew in her would not have changed her. These images come from "Fom Hull , Hell and Halifax - An illustrated History of No.4 Group1937-1948" by ChrisBlachett. (Midland Counties). The dangers of being in the lower order - arriving over the target on time was important , this 158 crew were hit by a bomb , lucky to come back - look at the mess made of the mid upper turret. A bomber which as has been mentioned in previous threads underwent development and changes - the tail being redesigned , the loss of the front turret - frontal attacks at night - when you think of the problems for the attacker it was never really a runner. Increasingly powerful engines - the change of power plant giving greater altitude and all round preformance. She served in a multitude of roles , transport, bomber , Coastal , Met. flights , glider tug . A good old girl.
