On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 8:45 AM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote: > > Likely it's *After* bombs away because up until the point of release, the > bombardier would have been facing front, hunched over the bomb-sight. > > The photo was taken from the navigator's position in the aircraft;. could > have been taken by the navigator himself or by a combat photographer > assigned to the mission.
The photo is from the personal collection of Paul C. Chryst. He was cross trained - bombardier and navigator. <http://freepages.military.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hfhm/Roster/c_names.htm> > I'm leaning towards the navigator himself having taken it because the image > frame doesn't appear to have the characteristic film holder outline I'd > expect from official photos made using sheet film holders and a Graflex > camera. > > Maybe official photographers with the 8th Air Force had small format > cameras, but a quick internet search turned up a dearth of information on > the camera equipment issued and used by the U.S. armed forces during WWII. My grandfather was an Air Corps photographer. He stated that he flew in the Pacific theater and was primarily tasked with photographing targets, before and after. He passed away in 1977, and since then the family has had no luck identifying photographs he may have taken. Either they don't exist any more, or it's nearly impossible to attribute them to a particular photographer. -- Scott Loveless http://www.twosixteen.com/fivetoedsloth/ __o _'\<,_ (*)/ (*) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
