Vintage shots from days gone by!

A photo donated to Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command by the landowner of depicts the site of a B-17 bomber crash May 10, 1944, near Vostenhof, Austria. The crash claimed the lives of 1st Lt. Stanley Dwyer and gunner Sgt. John Boros. (U.S. Air Force photo)
B-17G-30-BO Flying Fortress
S/N 42-31804
775th BS, 463rd BG, 15th AF
Shot down by flak on the May 10,1944 mission to Wiener Neustadt,Austria. A direct hit by flak in the fuel tanks between the #3 and #4 engines set the plane on fire and forced the crews bail out. It is believed the plane either exploded or crashed into the mountain shown, killing half the crew. MACR 4660
2nd Lt. Stanley N. Dwyer - Pilot (KIA)
2nd Lt. Manley H. Dale,Jr. - CoPilot (POW)
2nd Lt. Francis G. Gilhooley - Navigator (KIA)
T/Sgt. Prescott C. Piper - Bombardier (KIA)
T/Sgt. John J. Boros - Engineer/Top Turret Gunner (KIA)
T/Sgt. George D. Mitchell - Radio Operator (POW)
S/Sgt. Eugene E. Parker,Jr. - Ball Turret Gunner (WIA/POW)
S/Sgt. Stephen A. Milewski - Right Waist Gunner (POW)
S/Sgt. John E. Boyett,Jr. - Left Waist Gunner (POW)
S/Sgt. William Olfenius - Tail Gunner (KIA)

 

This series of photographs by the Automobile Club of Southern California attempts to demonstrate the danger which children playing in streets pose to drivers and to remind them to stay alert when behind the wheel. The images were all taken in the Wilshire Boulevard and McCadden Place area of Los Angeles.

 

They're a collection from the world over. Don't know who did the work. I skip those that don't think are as interesting and am about 2/3 the way through. Glad you enjoy them.

 

That is NOT a Mopar! Unless they built Lincolns that year...

 

My mistake. Old photo, old eyes, bad glasses, bad bourbon...

 

The tail gunner survived, couldn't get out of the tail, but when the bomb bay doors opened, one of the waist gunners was blown back into the tail, and they retreived him, but realized that crew weight helped to stabilize the tail, so the gunner remained there until the plane landed in England (and, yes, it flew from England to Tunisia, mission distance was not that far off from the B-17 missions from England to eastern Germany)

 

A Ferrari driver with coveralls. I'm wondering if this is Carroll Shelby?

 

^^^yes^^^

 

WOW one little spark... and he would have been toast

 

Any info on this one? Filming at the Cuban Grand Prix, maybe? Note the delete plates for the lower lights on that '57 Lincoln - I've never seen those before.

 

Who else would dress like a old farmer

 

Yes, Cuban Grand Prix in Havana 1958. Same grouping as other two racing images posted above it.