pieces of aviation history

[RCAF-De_Havilland]

anyone here own any interesting pieces of aviation history?

 

I own a rcaf ww2 training bomb,pics below

don't worry,it's inert.

what they would do is unscrew the two halves and sic a bog standard smoke grenade inside with a special fuse and drop them to help train novice bomb aimers as part of BCATP

in the second pic you can just make out :

r.c.a.f

ree 12b/96

sse-45

i know that it made in 45 by a sign that came with it and the obvious rcaf but the rest is a mystery  

[6./ZG26_Emil]

Yes I have a navigator's map from a WW2 RAF bomber crew. It shows routes plotted from RAF Hemswell so was probably a Wellington squadron possibly Polish although there is a slim chance it was Hampden bombers. 

 

I'll stick some pics up if you like

[RCAF-De_Havilland]

Yes I have a navigator's map from a WW2 RAF bomber crew. It shows routes plotted from RAF Hemswell so was probably a Wellington squadron possibly Polish although there is a slim chance it was Hampden bombers. 

 

I'll stick some pics up if you like

would love that

[6./ZG26_Emil]

 

 

 

 

 

The last one looks like a name to me but I can't read it

[RCAF-De_Havilland]

that's beautiful

[VBF-12_Stick-95]

This piece of aircraft wreckage was handed down to me from my parents.  The story is that they were at the beach in Hampton, NH during WWII.  A plane, which they said was a P-47, came in low from the sea with its engine sputtering.  It went overhead and crashed in the salt march behind the beach.  They, along with others, made their way to the crash site.  The pilot had died.  They picked up this piece of the plane.  It had to be before 1944 as my father went into the Marines at that time.  From the marking this aircraft appears to be from 1942-43.  My guess is that the pilot was trying to reach the USAAF Grenier Field in Manchester, NH which would have been directly inland from Hampton.

 

I have tried to find out about this crash but this type of thing would not have been reported in local newspapers at the time.  Military crash databases have not yielded anything.

Edited March 26, 2016 by 12.OIAE_Stick-95

[1./ZG1_ElHadji]

I have several parts from a B-17F that crashed not far from where I live in Sweden. The plane, Snr 42-30066 "Mugwump", was a Castor drone and was on it's way from England to Helgoland and the submarine pens in October 1944. They lost control of it and P-47's that trailed the flight, saw it disappear over Sweden. 70km's north of Gothenburg it ran out of fuel and crashed. Since it was loaded with 335 crates of Torpex explosives it is actually one of the largest "bombs" to detonate during WWII if we don't count Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Luckily enough it crashed in a forest. You can still see the crater from the massive explosion and the area is full of aluminium pieces.

 

Edited March 31, 2016 by -=XBOYZ=-ElHadji