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R & J Wedding
Dec 04, 2011Richard and Jaimee, on Dec 3, 2011 had a lovely wedding ceremony at St. Mary Church in Wilmington, NC.
There were many photographers.
Slats' WWII Images
Nov 22, 2011Slats lives in Buffalo, WY. He was a tail gunner in WWII. He was made a POW when his bomber was shot down over Germany. The pilot crash landed the plane and I believe everyone survived the crash. He landed between a barn and another farm outbuilding.
I think Slats is the only remaining crew member. He shared these photos with me in hopes that a collector or a museum might find them worth sharing with the public.
The high resolution (600dpi) scans have been scaled down and compressed for web delivery. Most of the scans are of composite photos of smaller snapshots. Slats has original prints of the first collage in this gallery. He may have others.
I'm not clear where Slats got these images. Many (or all?) of them may have come from his brother. Many of the portraits look as though they were collected as some part of book that was shared with many.
Several images here he sourced to the WWII US Military project facing the challenge of gathering photographic details of targets. Slats had a lot of admiration for those pilots who often flew over enemy territory basically armed only with a camera mounted to their aircraft.
If you view these images and find some or all of them interesting, please visit me on my blog (http://www.izzaboo.com/froth) or twitter (http://twitter.com/izzaboo) and share with me what you know/think about these pics. I suppose there's a comment feature here too, one could use...
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