Posted by B on July 7, 2008
Some time ago, I saw this notice at my school. The lede is copied here:
“The Mary Condon Hodgson Art Gallery will host paintings by Richard Harris from June 7-July 8. Titled ‘Wings of Honor II,’ his paintings are influenced by the world of military aviation.”
With school out for the summer and gas prices the way they are, I’ve been a bit of home-body. But I finally got over to the gallery today and checked out the 20+ paintings. Getting good pix of paintings is always a challenge, and today was no exception. I had to stand on the side to avoid flash and reflection issues in the gallery.
So without further adieu, here they are. The gallery here includes two Luftwaffe jets. Cool.
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Posted by B on September 22, 2007
I am rarely surprised anymore at the great finds out there on the web. And I can’t take any credit for scooping anything, as they are a product of late night web surfing adventures (instead of sleeping) in history forums. Over at Mark Bando Triggertime web site, a user posted a link to US field manuals from the war, among them this…
BASIC FIELD MANUAL
MILITARY INTELLIGENCE
IDENTIFICATION OF GERMAN AIRCRAFT
March 11, 1942
The German manual is 50 plus pages long and each aircraft has multiple renderings beyond the one image on the specs page. Much of the same stuff is up on the web in places like wikipedia or over at the ww2db.com aircraft section. That’s all well and good. But this! This! It’s an original and worth seeing in the form that others saw in 1942. The entire manual is here and the link to many more Army Field manuals is here.
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