Doug Franklin wrote:
On 2010-11-11 21:36, Eric Weir wrote:
No details are provided about how it was made or what the situation
was, just the title. From it I judge that it's at the moment
immediately after the bombs were dropped. An important one, because
there would have been a period prior to that, I think of a couple
minutes or so, during which the plane was under the control of the
bombardier and the bomb sight, and evasive action could not be taken.
My mind jumps to the possibility that the plane came under attack, or
had been under attack, during the final run up to the target. That
might explain the look on the guy's face. Pure speculation, but it is
"*After* bombs away," not just "Bombs away."
That's possible, and it's certainly logical from the photo's title, but
it seems a bit odd. If they'd just dropped their bombs, I would expect
there to be visible flak bursts in the sky. There wouldn't be fighters,
though, as neither side's fighters would generally get into the flak
gauntlet around the actual target or specified "flak zones" on the
routes across Europe.
Odder than that; daylight raids were, afaik, done at high altitude.
There is no sign of contrails. But there are in another picture from
the series.
http://freepages.military.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hfhm/Roster/images/chryst_pc_1.jpg
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