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an old wooden album with a name engraved on itseveral black and white photos of a man standing in front of an airplanetwo old photos of a man and a woman in front of an airplaneseveral black and white photos of airplanes on display in a bookan old photo of a plane flying over a body of wateran old photo of a plane on the tarmacseveral black and white photos of a plane and some peopleseveral black and white photos of a group of men standing next to an airplanefour black and white photos of an old airplane on displayseveral black and white photos of old airplanes on display in a bookseveral black and white photos of airplanes flying in the skyfour photos of a plane in a book on a tablean old black and white photo of a book with pictures of people on ita black and white photo of a group of planes on the tarmacseveral black and white photos of an airplane and a planeblack and white photograph of a book with pictures of a boat in the wateran old black and white photo of a group of photographsseveral old black and white photos of people walking down a dirt roadan old black and white photo of a man and a woman in a gardenan old black and white photo of a group of people in front of a buildingan old black and white photo of a book with pictures of a taj mahalan old photo of an airplane flying over a city in the skya black and white photo of a plane flying in the skya black and white photo of a plane flying in the skyan old photo of an airplane that is sitting on the tarmacblack and white photograph of a group of men in uniforman old photo of a man sitting on a set of stairsan old photo of a woman sitting in front of a tenttwo old photos of a man on a balcony
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Anonymous photo album, 462nd Bomb Group – 20th Air Force – P…
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Estimate €200 - €300
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Anonymous photo album, 462nd Bomb Group – 20th Air Force – Pacific – Mariana Islands (68 original photographs) This album likely belonged to a crew member of a B-29 Superfortress, as photographs of the same man appear in succession throughout the pages. However, he could not be identified. The 462nd BG was initially stationed in India, then in the Mariana Islands, on the island of Tinian, as part of the strategic bombing campaign against Japan. The album contains around twenty examples of nose art painted on the noses of the B-29s. The owner of this album was likely assigned to the aircraft named ‘THUNDERBIRD’, of which several photographs appear with different tail markings: early markings from when the unit was based in India (an ‘X’ at the top of the tail fin), and markings from when the unit was based on Tinian (a black triangle). This photograph appears to show the crew of the album’s owner. Several photographs show B-29s flying in formation during missions, over Japan near Mount Fuji, and on their return to Tinian, where their base is visible on the ground. One also shows a B-29 with its bomb bays open as it drops its payload. The final pages show B-29s on their aprons at Tinian, B-29s from other units (notably the 6th Bomb Group), and an interesting aerial view taken directly above the battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay on 2 September 1945 for the signing of the Armistice. (Grégory Pons Collection)
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About the sale Sale of the Grégory Pons collection and miscellaneous items (Aviation and WW2 Militaria)
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Auction time 11/14/2026 at 1:30 PM
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