Bob Hudson Posted March 25, 2011 Author Share #26 Posted March 25, 2011 On call... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Hudson Posted March 25, 2011 Author Share #27 Posted March 25, 2011 Found an image showing that some of these photos were taken while the photographer (who retired as a Lt Col) was in 5th Air Force: The flight line Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Hudson Posted March 25, 2011 Author Share #28 Posted March 25, 2011 These may be the last of the batch (there's a bunch that seem to be mostly family photos and i have to go through those one more time to see if I missed anything). Before joining the Air Corps in WWII he was a cadet at The Citadel: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwb123 Posted March 26, 2011 Share #29 Posted March 26, 2011 Look closely at the photo of the B-17 in post #2. Underneath of it is what I believe is a lifeboat. This was used for long range air/ sea rescue. The insignia on the side has the red bar indicating that it is from the postwar era. This may be tied to your later photo of the lifeboats floating in the water. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Hudson Posted March 26, 2011 Author Share #30 Posted March 26, 2011 Look closely at the photo of the B-17 in post #2. Underneath of it is what I believe is a lifeboat. This was used for long range air/ sea rescue. The insignia on the side has the red bar indicating that it is from the postwar era. This may be tied to your later photo of the lifeboats floating in the water. Found some more life raft photos in the stack: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ww1collector Posted March 26, 2011 Share #31 Posted March 26, 2011 The "Generals ride" looks like a Super Constellation. They were in service as commercial planes at that time too. Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Hudson Posted March 26, 2011 Author Share #32 Posted March 26, 2011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Hudson Posted March 26, 2011 Author Share #33 Posted March 26, 2011 The national pastime... Here's the pitch... And he scores! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwb123 Posted March 26, 2011 Share #34 Posted March 26, 2011 Found some more life raft photos in the stack: Taking closer look at these, as well as your previous one, it would appear these life rafts are occupied! I didn't catch it with the first one... I thought the shadows were just highlights of the life rafts. But taking a second look, the very top most one looks like it has an aviator lying on his back with a flight jacket (or life jacket) looking skyward. Yep, I bet there is a good story to go with these! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Hudson Posted March 26, 2011 Author Share #35 Posted March 26, 2011 Taking closer look at these, as well as your previous one, it would appear these life rafts are occupied! I didn't catch it with the first one... I thought the shadows were just highlights of the life rafts. But taking a second look, the very top most one looks like it has an aviator lying on his back with a flight jacket (or life jacket) looking skyward. Yep, I bet there is a good story to go with these! I had looked at the first ones I scanned and wondered if they might be occupied: but then that last set makes it clear. Those are rather extreme enlargements, but in the one you can see people sitting up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Hudson Posted March 26, 2011 Author Share #36 Posted March 26, 2011 Down to the very last scans. I scanned 47 filmstrips, with four negatives on each strip, for a total of more than 180 images. Each strip yielded perhaps two images worth enlarging (there were some duplicates, especially of aircraft in flight). Having almost half of the negatives be "interesting" is a pretty good success rate for photographs. Again, I made liberal use of cropping and exposure adjustments for the enlarged ones. I believe this is Mt Fuji when he was with 5th AF in Japan. This was on the same filmstrip as the flight line sentry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Hudson Posted March 26, 2011 Author Share #37 Posted March 26, 2011 Last set: Okay who is this Lt. General at the Boeing B-50 event? Random aircraft shots: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Hudson Posted March 26, 2011 Author Share #38 Posted March 26, 2011 The negatives came in this small metal box: open it up and it has a section for storing negatives (up to 1200 or so) and there's a white surface with a light behind it that can be used to view the negatives. This box is late 1940's and contemporary to the film. Most of the negatives were rolled up and stored in the right side of the tray: curled up negatives are a bear to load in to my film scanner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bebel Posted March 26, 2011 Share #39 Posted March 26, 2011 Wonderful photos! Thank you for sharing. On the firsts, the crews were using B-5 mae west. So, I believe the shots were post ww2. Franck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Hudson Posted March 26, 2011 Author Share #40 Posted March 26, 2011 Wonderful photos! Thank you for sharing. On the firsts, the crews were using B-5 mae west. So, I believe the shots were post ww2. Franck Some AAF crews in the Pacific had the B-5 late in the war, but it could have been in 46 or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobrahistorian Posted March 27, 2011 Share #41 Posted March 27, 2011 Hey Bob, nice P-47N! That's a 73rd Fighter Squadron, 318th Fighter Group Jug off of Ie Shima. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. Boghots Posted March 27, 2011 Share #42 Posted March 27, 2011 Ref: Post #26, photo #3 - The guy on the phone wearing flight suit, writing with a newspaper in front of him . . . Bob, I've a high degree of certainty that this could be Robert G. Emmens, Doolittle Raider and co-pilot of crew #8. Bob was a late replacement addition to the raid, replacing another member that he said had gotten sick during initial training. Bob's was the crew that after the Tokyo raid, made a safe landing near Vladivostok, Russia. They were held by the Russians for 13 months, until escaping and making a grueling trek on foot to Turkey. Bob retired from the Air Force as a Colonel, returning to his hometown of Medford, Oregon. I knew him well in his later years, after he'd retired from his civilian life. He was a heck of a fine gentleman. His cheerful demeanor and beaming smile are remembered by all that knew him. In the '50's he authored a great book on his Doolittle raid experiences, "Guests of The Kremlin". I believe that his crew #8 was the last surviving full crew from the raid. - He remained very humble about his own experiences, deferring any glory to those who didn't make it, or survived the hell of captivity by the Japanese. Like I said, without turning up other photos I can't be absolutely positive your picture is of Bob Emmens. But I looked through a number of his photos with him, and I'm pretty certain. Here's a link to info about Bob Emmens: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_G._Emmens Great photos Bob, I'm really enjoying them :thumbsup: Best regards, Paul Walker Klamath Falls, Oregon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Hudson Posted March 27, 2011 Author Share #43 Posted March 27, 2011 Ref: Post #26, photo #3 - The guy on the phone wearing flight suit, writing with a newspaper in front of him . . . Bob, I've a high degree of certainty that this could be Robert G. Emmens, Doolittle Raider and co-pilot of crew #8. Bob was a late replacement addition to the raid, replacing another member that he said had gotten sick during initial training. Bob's was the crew that after the Tokyo raid, made a safe landing near Vladivostok, Russia. They were held by the Russians for 13 months, until escaping and making a grueling trek on foot to Turkey. Bob retired from the Air Force as a Colonel, returning to his hometown of Medford, Oregon. I knew him well in his later years, after he'd retired from his civilian life. He was a heck of a fine gentleman. His cheerful demeanor and beaming smile are remembered by all that knew him. In the '50's he authored a great book on his Doolittle raid experiences, "Guests of The Kremlin". I believe that his crew #8 was the last surviving full crew from the raid. - He remained very humble about his own experiences, deferring any glory to those who didn't make it, or survived the hell of captivity by the Japanese. Like I said, without turning up other photos I can't be absolutely positive your picture is of Bob Emmens. But I looked through a number of his photos with him, and I'm pretty certain. Here's a link to info about Bob Emmens: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_G._Emmens Great photos Bob, I'm really enjoying them :thumbsup: Best regards, Paul Walker Klamath Falls, Oregon I found another Emmens photo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plant#4 Posted March 27, 2011 Share #44 Posted March 27, 2011 I really like the jeep in this pic. It looks like it has a "extension" added to the rear, and hub caps! Most cool pics! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. Boghots Posted March 27, 2011 Share #45 Posted March 27, 2011 I found another Emmens photo I had seen those on the web too, but was both too incapable and lazy, to attempt a nice cropping of them like you just did His personal photos that I looked at with him years ago, really showed his tendancy toward curly red hair when he was younger man. When I knew him, his hair was mostly graying. Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zepher11 Posted April 26, 2011 Share #46 Posted April 26, 2011 Just went throught the whole set of photos. Totally awesome. Thank you for sharing! JD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Hudson Posted April 26, 2011 Author Share #47 Posted April 26, 2011 Just went throught the whole set of photos. Totally awesome. Thank you for sharing! JD Thanks for the reminder: I've had so much stuff come through in the last month, I'd already forgotten I had these Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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