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Great image Jess. Was there any information about when and where this pic was
shot? The planes look to be about the right vintage and the background looks
suspiciously like a very early McClellan AFB outside of Sacramento. If this is a
shot of planes being prepared for the Doolittle Raid that would be a great find.
Thanks for the catch.

On 1 Jan 2013 01:36:11 GMT, Jess Lurkin wrote:

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Ed Loomis wrote in
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Great image Jess. Was there any information about when and where this
pic was shot? The planes look to be about the right vintage and the
background looks suspiciously like a very early McClellan AFB outside of
Sacramento. If this is a shot of planes being prepared for the Doolittle
Raid that would be a great find. Thanks for the catch.

On 1 Jan 2013 01:36:11 GMT, Jess Lurkin wrote:

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Sorry, don't have any info, but now that you
mentioned Doolittle, I will start looking
around for the provenance. Just a wild guess
(based on the tractor alone) but I think it
is later than the Raiders.

The original I have is a png file which may have
some meta-data hidden inside. Thanks for the
kick in the butt (ooops) memory.

"Indrek" no wrote in news:2Z-
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http://www.shorpy.com/node/3549


Thanks Indrek!

While going through some of the other pix, look
at this one...

(The caption - "I took this picture in the early
70's at Fox Field, Lancaster, California. It was
advertised as The Human Fly. The aircraft is a
DC-8. Now that's upmanship.")

http://www.shorpy.com/node/14252?size=_original#caption

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On Tue, 1 Jan 2013 15:25:16 -0500, "Indrek" no wrote:

On Tue, 1 Jan 2013 15:25:16 -0500, in alt.binaries.pictures.aviation "Indrek"
no wrote:

On 1 Jan 2013 01:36:11 GMT, Jess Lurkin wrote:

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Image:B-25s


Sorry, don't have any info, but now that you
mentioned Doolittle, I will start looking
around for the provenance. Just a wild guess
(based on the tractor alone) but I think it
is later than the Raiders.

The original I have is a png file which may have
some meta-data hidden inside. Thanks for the
kick in the butt (ooops) memory.

Found this link which refers to 1942. GIYF
http://www.shorpy.com/node/3549

Cheers,

Indrek Aavisto

Well that is it. Thanks for the info. At least the year was right.

Ed

G'day again,

just been investigating the site again - came across this thread as well



http://www.mission4today.com/index.p...wtopic&t=14430



enjoy

Conscious Pilate