Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/03/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 Howard Ritter <hlritter at bex.net>wrote: >Thanks for posting, Alan. This is a wonderful image, a mystic >convergence of the technological and the natural, the military and the >serene. >No trouble telling just where in the P-38's fuselage the camera is >located! >It looks like the picture was made near high noon in a tropical clime, >with the sun smack overhead. >This is worthy of memorialization in the US Air Force Museum or the >Smithsonian Museum of Flight. You might consider contacting them. >--howard ========================================================= They most likely have it. This (I'm assuming) was a print brought back from overseas service as a souvenir, and the negative probably resides in the Air Force archives. The landscape is probably New Guinea, since my father was with the 8th Photographic Squadron (L) in Port Moresby. Alan Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer UPAA POY 1978 University Information Technology Services University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/