Pictures of the airmen, where can I find it?

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Dear far away friends.
Was thinking the other night [:O][banghead][%-)][D)][:O]. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a picture displayed of the pilot, beside the a/c that you’ve built?
My question is, where can I find these pictures, aces and those who weren’t?
Thinking also that I could put their score and missions and stuff too, like squadron patches, together with the picture.

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Jan,
The are quite a few photos of Aircrew, Pilots, and Groundcrew on almost all the WWII
aviation sites: My Dad’s WWII Bomb Group Site (Pacific Theater) has lots of them in
the gallery section. http://www.redraiders22bg.com

Ray

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Hi Jan, here is an example of one of the pictures I put together that features “Tex” Hill. The frame size is 14"x 18" to accomodate a 8"x10" photo and a “Kill” sticker and is double matted.

A close up of the kill sticker I had produced and is actually a vinyl peel off sticker and signed by Tex.


This was put together for a fraction of the cost of taking it to a framer!!! I am currently building the Tamiya P-51B with “Tex” Hill’s markings in the photo. If you want some tips on how to do something like this, I will help.

Tim Landers

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Tim, Ray. Thank you so very much gentlemen, very, very much appreciated![:D][:D][:D]
Ray, I’ll have a look around on 22nd BG.
Tim, if you don’t mind to give me some pointers etc, I’d be ever so thankful (right word?)
Thanks again mates![tup][tup][tup][tup]

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Have a look at www.littlefriends.co.uk or www.web-birds.com . These have lots of pics of the pilots and aces in their aircraft.

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What I’ve done is go out to the web to google.com.

Type in “mustang ace”, spitfire ace", “zero ace” etc… you may have to wade through quite a few dead end pages but I have always found at LEAST one… once you have a name go back to google and type in the name and you will almost always come up with the story behind the name and pics as well…

hope this helps!

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To help refine your google search, before you type in your ace’s name, click above the search window and highlight “Images” first-- then all you will see are pics so you don’t have to weed through websites without pics!