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PHOTOS FLYING WITH 5TH BOMBER GROUP| REGAL UNIFORMA COLECTOR |
Posted: June 27, 2004 06:21 pm
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5TH BOMBER GROUP PHOTOS FLYING AS IT LOOK LIKE FROM INSIDE THE PLANE. WINTER 1942-1943 STALINGRAD AND 1943 SOUTHERN UKRAINE. THESE GUYS DID A NUMBER ON THE RUSSIANS. THEY FLEW HEINKEL HE 111 H-3 AND JUNKER JU 88A-4. THESE PHOTOS GIVE YOU THE FACES AND PERSONALITIES OF THE INDIVIDUALS FLYING THESE PLANES AND WHAT IT LOOKED LIKE FIRST HAND.
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| REGAL UNIFORMA COLECTOR |
Posted: June 27, 2004 06:22 pm
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| REGAL UNIFORMA COLECTOR |
Posted: June 27, 2004 06:24 pm
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| REGAL UNIFORMA COLECTOR |
Posted: June 27, 2004 06:27 pm
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| REGAL UNIFORMA COLECTOR |
Posted: June 27, 2004 06:29 pm
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| REGAL UNIFORMA COLECTOR |
Posted: June 27, 2004 06:30 pm
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| Victor |
Posted: June 27, 2004 07:08 pm
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Great photos!
The first one in posts no. 2 and 3 are cpt. av. Ion Profir (pilot) and cpt. Eugen Teodoru (observer). They were probably the best crew of the 1942 campaign. Btw, in 1942-early 1943, the 5th Bomber Group did not posses Ju-88A-4s, only He-111H-3s, as seen in one of the photos. The 5th Bomber Group with Ju-88s entered action in August 1943. |
 
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| C-2 |
Posted: June 27, 2004 07:47 pm
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Great pictures!
Can we use them on the site? |
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| REGAL UNIFORMA COLECTOR |
Posted: June 27, 2004 07:48 pm
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General de brigada Group: Members Posts: 1079 Member No.: 198 Joined: January 18, 2004 |
 Captain Aviator Ion Profir was a MV Order recipient in 1944. This photo taken in 1942. He must have been one tough guy. Did he survive the war ? |
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| CCJ |
Posted: June 28, 2004 01:04 am
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Great photos. It is amazing that Victor know who these fellows are...
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| REGAL UNIFORMA COLECTOR |
Posted: June 28, 2004 01:46 am
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General de brigada Group: Members Posts: 1079 Member No.: 198 Joined: January 18, 2004 |
Photo #9 has a photo of Jesus or Saint directly below the center windshields of the plane. "God is my co-pilot".
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| Victor |
Posted: June 28, 2004 08:00 am
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He was one of the best Romanian bomber pilots. After the 1942-ealry 1943 campaign the command thought his low-visibility flying skills will be more useful in training other pilots and then in the 1st Night Fighter Squadron. So he did not see any combat after that. After the war he managed to escape to Turkey with a Ju-34 loaded with others fleeing the Communist regime. He then moved to Paris where he comitted suicide several years after that. A sad end to a great pilot. |
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| REGAL UNIFORMA COLECTOR |
Posted: June 28, 2004 12:46 pm
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That is a sad ending to someone who stood out from the rest. I also noticed that while the other pilots and crewmen wore their leather pilots cap, he wore the traditional Romanian black wool hat.
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| Victor |
Posted: June 28, 2004 01:59 pm
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That is not Profir. I said posts no. 2 and 3. He is the guy with the mustache and Teodoru is the guy with the long face.
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| Dénes |
Posted: June 28, 2004 03:21 pm
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That particular photo doesn't appear to be a Heinkel He 111. It's possibly a Dornier Do 17, used by Rumanian long-range recce units. Cpt. av. Profir is indeed the guy with the moustache. |
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