Friday, January 18, 2013

Bassingbourn Photographer - The Wabash Cannonball II


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.



P-61 lite good PanX f4.5 60th sec. med yell filter 04
P61 lite good PanX 4 5 60 med yell filter 03

P61 lite good PanX 4 5 60 med yell filter 02
P61 lite good PanX 4 5 60 med yell filter 01

P61 f6.3 100th 35mm Elmar Wide Angle 03
P61 6 3 100 35mm Elmar Wide Angle 05

P61 6 3 100 35mm Elmar Wide Angle 04
P61 6 3 100 35mm Elmar Wide Angle 02

P61 6 3 100 35mm Elmar Wide Angle 01
P61 6 3 100 35mm Elmar wide angle

P61 4 5 60 lite good med yel filter 02
P61 4 5 60 lite good med yel filter 01




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.

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2 comments:

  1. UnknownJanuary 29, 2018 at 11:14 AM

    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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  2. anyjazzJanuary 29, 2018 at 1:01 PM

    Thanks for your comment. Sounds like a worthwhile and interesting project!

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