Here are twelve photographs found quite by chance within a set of 300 negatives discovered on a bottom shelf at a flea market.
It's a Northrup P-61 "Black Widow" Night Fighter. Only 706 were built. Bassingbourn AF Base in England, was the home of many P-51 Mustangs, b-17 Bombers and a few P-47 Fighters. No one seems to know why this lone "Black Widow" was there in the Winter of 1944-45.
This set of six photographs of this Short Stirling, a very rare aircraft indeed, is part of a book of negatives found at a flea market in 2008.
Included are
a P-61 Black Widow "Wabash Cannonball II,
a 125 mission Lancaster "S for Sugar",
the B-17 “Ack Ack Annie”,
and a bazooka equipped Piper Cub.
Look at these and be amazed.
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The P-61 Wabash Cannonball was my Uncles aircraft during WWII. Listen to the lyrics of the song by the same name, his wife was my Dad's sister from Alabama. I'm researching the internet for images so I can have custom decals made to build a scale model of his aircraft.
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