What wouldn't you give just to be able to wander these streets for a day?

What is also interesting, the only 2 twin-boomed allied aircraft in war next to each other!

Don’t forget the Fokker G-1!!

Compare the size of people.
61 is “small”.

Actually a bit surprised myself, always imagined it a bit bigger.

What is also interesting, the only 2 twin-boomed allied aircraft in war next to each other!

People were generally smaller back then as well.

Interesting pic of a P-61 ‘ALCM Carrier’ here….

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:P-61_GorgonIV_NAN1-48.jpg

I couldn’t see very well what that was at the back. Didn’t realise the P38 was so big, or maybe the Widow was so small.
I wonder if these Widows were destined for the Ardennes Offensive as night fighters?

Compare the size of people.
61 is “small”.

Actually a bit surprised myself, always imagined it a bit bigger.

What is also interesting, the only 2 twin-boomed allied aircraft in war next to each other!

I’ve never bookmarked Retronaut, because I need time to have a life in, and I could forget to eat reading that site!

We all forget just how much went on almost everywhere during WW2. I regularly pass a spot where Hess’s Messerschmitt was displayed outside the “Puseum” in Oxford, have seen photos of tanks in little villages in Kent I used to know, and know that a distant rellie was woken up by a column of Churchill tanks rolling through the village ford at dawn.

Adrian

Is that you Jim driving your Wolseley?

Another shot of the P-61-A’s, probably destined for the 422nd NFS.

Regards Duggy

the Mersey’s ports and dockers would handle over 90 per cent of all the war material brought into Britain from abroad with some 75 million tons passing through its 11 miles (18 km) of quays.

And a scant 30 years later you could hardly get any of them to do anything!

I couldn’t see very well what that was at the back. Didn’t realise the P38 was so big, or maybe the Widow was so small.
I wonder if these Widows were destined for the Ardennes Offensive as night fighters?

Scouse Parade

Yep, deffo 2 p-61 and a p-38

Two Black Widows and a B25?

Looks more like two Black Widows and a P-38 to me??

Liverpool and planes would have had a big down side earlier in the war – from Wiki

The Liverpool Blitz was the heavy and sustained bombing of the British city of Liverpool and its surrounding area, at the time mostly within the counties of Lancashire and Cheshire but commonly known as Merseyside, during the Second World War by the German Luftwaffe.

Liverpool, Bootle, and the Wirral were the most heavily bombed areas of the country outside of London,[1] due to their importance to the British war effort. The government was desperate to hide from the Germans just how much damage had been inflicted upon the docks, so reports on the bombing were kept low-key. Over 4,000 residents lost their lives during the blitz, dwarfing the number of casualties sustained in other bombed industrial areas such as Birmingham, Coventry, and Hull. This death toll was second only to London, which suffered 30,000 deaths by the end of the war.

Liverpool, Bootle, and the Wallasey Pool were strategically very important locations during the Second World War. The large port on the River Mersey, on the North West coast of England, had for many years been the United Kingdom’s main link with North America, and this would prove to be a key part in the British participation in the Battle of the Atlantic. As well as providing anchorage for naval ships from many nations, the Mersey’s ports and dockers would handle over 90 per cent of all the war material brought into Britain from abroad with some 75 million tons passing through its 11 miles (18 km) of quays. Liverpool was the eastern end of a Transatlantic chain of supplies from North America, without which Britain could not have pursued the war.

Two Black Widows and a B25?

Typical scousers thay have only been there five minutes and they have had the wings and props away!:)

The moment I saw the picture I was going to write the same damned thing!!!

Or pop into the Stock Exchange and buy a shed load of BP shares or Esso or Shell, then over to register Apple Computers and Microsoft Computers as trade names, ..

Typical scousers thay have only been there five minutes and they have had the wings and props away!:)

Yes I might have been able to meet Douglas Bader as he popped out of the Stork Hotel

:eek::D:D:D:diablo:

Liverpool in WW2

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Yes I might have been able to meet Douglas Bader as he popped out of the Stork Hotel