Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/06/19

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Subject: [Leica] IMGS: My Father
From: amr3 at uwmalumni.com (Alan Magayne-Roshak)
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2016 20:35:14 -0500

On Sun, 19 Jun 2016 Tina Manley <tmanley at gmail.com>wrote:

>Thanks, Douglas.  I don't know anything about the camera but the photo is a
>part of the Frank Scherschel - LIFE Collections

>There is more information here:
>http://www.americanairmuseum.com/media/21590
<http://www.americanairmuseum.com/media/21590>


>And the plane is a P47 Thunderbolt.

>1st Lt Pierce L Wiggin aboard his P-47C 41-6541 VF-A, 336FS, 4FG, 8AF
USAAF.

>Tina
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Tina, it was great to see these.

I thought that might be a razorback Thunderbolt. Looks like the housing for
a rear view mirror on the canopy frame.


-- 
Alan

Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services
(Retired)
UPAA Photographer of the Year 1978
UPAA Master of the Profession 2014
amr3 at uwm.edu
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/

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