Family Experience With M1 Carbine

[Harlan (Deceased)]

Do you have any good electronic stores near you? If you can find one with someone working there who knows what they're doing they should be able to fix you up. Many scanner prices have come down over the past couple of years and you can get them that do amazing things. With the number of negatives you have, a mid level or so scanner will be a very good investment and save you money in the long run.

Of course since you started this ball rolling, I agree with Jim. I hope you get some developed someplace soon so we can see them. Money is no object -
(Especially since it's coming from your wallet)

I really am looking forward to some photos Dave. WWII aircraft rival carbines as far as my extreme interest goes.

~ Harlan

[Dave-In-Maine]

cafdfw:
I'll see what I can come up with for a teaser--this won't be a quick process.

As an aside, if anyone has access to this book, my dad wrote two chapters for it:
Amazon.com: The Young Ones: American Airmen of WW II (9780595282371): Erik Dyreborg: Books

[trekvana]

Dave-

the book sounds like a great read. Which chapters were written by your dad??

[Harlan (Deceased)]

It does look like a good book. The whole book is a compilation of firsthand accounts of flying experiences related to combat missions.
I started reading the preview sections available and wanted to keep reading when they ran out. Looks like I need another book!

[Bill Hollinger]

I think I'll have to buy that! My old business partner's dad flew P47s. He got shot down three times, made it out on his own once and twice with the help of the French Underground. My dad was in the Army Air Corps also.

[Harlan (Deceased)]

Until Dave gets us some great vintage P-47 photos I thought these might be an appetizer.
I took them a few years ago at a show we attended in east Texas.

Can you imagine being 19 years old flying behind a 2000hp Pratt & Whitney Double Wasp radial with eight 50 caliber MG's on your wings and told to go take out targets of opportunity?

[Dave-In-Maine]

'kay-you shamed me into it!!!
Here's my dad's P-47 in early(ish) 1945, just before he went on leave back to the States.
P47-D | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Aviation artist Edwin Markham later converted this image into color, and we have a one-of-a-kind mounted print of it.

Here's his borrowed P-47 that he had to belly-land after being badly shot up outside Bastogne. He was stationed at Mourmelon, and befriended some members of the 101st while they were there, so said he always considered the air support the 514th flew in support of the 101st at Bastogne as "personal." You will note the souvenir P-38 in a holster--he truly was a gun freak!!!
Dad and Busted Jug | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

My mom, former reference librarian, is cataloging slides/negatives/contact sheets--so, bear with me.

PMs for more discussion welcome--kind of want to not be guilty of hijacking the forum away from Carbines

[G26ster]

PMs for more discussion welcome--kind of want to not be guilty of hijacking the forum away from Carbines

No, keep it going ! Let us all hear and see. This is history!

[gsimmons]

I like to see stuff like this! Thank you for sharing.

[frankderrico]

Great pictures of your father. Great history also. Thank you for sharing.....Frank