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GaryChildress -> Trip to Mobile, Pensacola, & Eglin AFB (6/11/2006 11:26:13 PM)

I got back a little while ago from a week's vacation in which, along with my folks, we visited first the BB Alabama in Mobile, then it was back to Pensacola and the naval aviation museum there and finally we stopped at the armaments museum at Eglin AFB.

I stayed almost strictly to checking out all the WWII related aircraft, and stuff as that was what I was most interested in especially in lieu of this game which I love most dearly. It was a great trip! following will be some photos I took.

First is the initial shot of the Alabama coming into the memorial parking lot. I tried for the life of me to get a picture of the whole ship but couldn't get far enough away. I did manage to get a shot of her bow to stern.

Following will be my first attempt to cram as much onto a single post as possible. [8|]



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GaryChildress -> RE: Trip to Mobile, Pensacola, & Eglin AFB (6/11/2006 11:44:34 PM)

The first one worked pretty well so I'll try a few more using the same format.



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GaryChildress -> RE: Trip to Mobile, Pensacola, & Eglin AFB (6/12/2006 12:02:01 AM)

Here is the first set inside the ship.



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GaryChildress -> RE: Trip to Mobile, Pensacola, & Eglin AFB (6/12/2006 12:26:12 AM)

Here's the last set for now, still inside the Alabama.

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BrucePowers -> RE: Trip to Mobile, Pensacola, & Eglin AFB (6/12/2006 1:55:18 AM)

Gary;
Nice pictures. Thank you for sharing. May be able to get up there one day.

Bruce



dtravel -> RE: Trip to Mobile, Pensacola, & Eglin AFB (6/12/2006 2:23:27 AM)

Stick it on the map!  http://www.frappr.com/matrixwarinthepacific



GaryChildress -> RE: Trip to Mobile, Pensacola, & Eglin AFB (6/12/2006 3:32:35 AM)


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ORIGINAL: BrucePowers

Gary;
Nice pictures. Thank you for sharing. May be able to get up there one day.

Bruce


It's well worth the trip! Pensacola naval air station is not too far away. They have a great museum, absolutely fantastic to walk around in! [X(]



GaryChildress -> RE: Trip to Mobile, Pensacola, & Eglin AFB (6/12/2006 3:37:27 AM)

A couple more sets and then I'll go outside on the deck. I've got probably over a hundred pictures total. I'll spare everyone and just pick out some of the more interesting ones. [:)]

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GaryChildress -> RE: Trip to Mobile, Pensacola, & Eglin AFB (6/12/2006 3:57:40 AM)

Here's the last of the internal shots I'll throw out there. After this we'll go up on deck for a quick tour.

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GaryChildress -> RE: Trip to Mobile, Pensacola, & Eglin AFB (6/12/2006 4:03:59 AM)

I'll put a few full size pictures on from here out.

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GaryChildress -> RE: Trip to Mobile, Pensacola, & Eglin AFB (6/12/2006 4:07:02 AM)

Big guns eh...

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GaryChildress -> RE: Trip to Mobile, Pensacola, & Eglin AFB (6/12/2006 4:10:31 AM)

Now for one of the "little" guns.

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GaryChildress -> RE: Trip to Mobile, Pensacola, & Eglin AFB (6/12/2006 4:13:20 AM)

Going in descending order, here's the next gun down.

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FeurerKrieg -> RE: Trip to Mobile, Pensacola, & Eglin AFB (6/12/2006 4:13:44 AM)

Great pics Gary!

I was visited the air musuem when I was in Pensacola as a kid, (11 or 12 years old maybe?) but haven't been there since. Maybe one of these days...



GaryChildress -> RE: Trip to Mobile, Pensacola, & Eglin AFB (6/12/2006 4:19:22 AM)

Finally here is the standard issue rifle for all crewman. 20mm guns were just about everywhere on the main deck which they could be mounted without mounting them on top of one another.

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GaryChildress -> RE: Trip to Mobile, Pensacola, & Eglin AFB (6/12/2006 4:23:22 AM)


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ORIGINAL: Feurer Krieg

Great pics Gary!

I was visited the air musuem when I was in Pensacola as a kid, (11 or 12 years old maybe?) but haven't been there since. Maybe one of these days...


Next up I'll show you some fo the sights at the Pensacola Naval Air museum as a teaser to whet the appetite. You have to go there and see the place yourself though. The pictures don't nearly do it justice. The WWII exhibit is awe inspiring.



GaryChildress -> RE: Trip to Mobile, Pensacola, & Eglin AFB (6/12/2006 4:30:16 AM)

If you get to Pensacola on a Wednesday or Thursday be sure to go early in the morning to catch the Blue Angels rehearsing. Be sure to wear ear plugs, you'll have a front row seat to the show.

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GaryChildress -> RE: Trip to Mobile, Pensacola, & Eglin AFB (6/12/2006 4:35:16 AM)

First up, everyone's favorite plane the diminutive F4F Wildcat.

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GaryChildress -> RE: Trip to Mobile, Pensacola, & Eglin AFB (6/12/2006 4:39:12 AM)

F6F...

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GaryChildress -> RE: Trip to Mobile, Pensacola, & Eglin AFB (6/12/2006 4:44:50 AM)

Japanese fanboys probably wake up in a cold sweat after a dream about these babies coming in for the kill. NOTE this is the actual, one and only, surviving SBD from the Battle of Midway!! Who knows this plane may have carried one of the bombs that struck home plate on that day. [&o]

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GaryChildress -> RE: Trip to Mobile, Pensacola, & Eglin AFB (6/12/2006 4:50:33 AM)

This one came out a little blury. Oh well. It's a P-40 B painted up like the flying tigers.

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GaryChildress -> RE: Trip to Mobile, Pensacola, & Eglin AFB (6/12/2006 4:54:29 AM)

PB4Y Privateer.

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GaryChildress -> RE: Trip to Mobile, Pensacola, & Eglin AFB (6/12/2006 4:56:58 AM)

Lockheed Ventura...are those oohs and aahs I hear in the background?

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GaryChildress -> RE: Trip to Mobile, Pensacola, & Eglin AFB (6/12/2006 5:00:56 AM)

I wish WitP had room to include these guys, the navy version of the B-25, the PBJ-1 (at least I think I remember it being a 1) I understand they came into play around 1943 or later, too late to see much action as a maritime patrol plane.

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GaryChildress -> RE: Trip to Mobile, Pensacola, & Eglin AFB (6/12/2006 5:04:42 AM)

An F4F-3 in the background in pre WW2 markings. I asked one of the curators why the navy abondoned the star with the red dot in the center. The reply was that the little red dot was politically incorrect in WW2 since it looked like a Japanese meatball.

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GaryChildress -> RE: Trip to Mobile, Pensacola, & Eglin AFB (6/12/2006 5:08:31 AM)

Here's every Allied fanboy's favorite! (well at least a good many) EDIT: actually I might note that this plane is probably from either late war or else Korea, having a four blade prop.

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GaryChildress -> RE: Trip to Mobile, Pensacola, & Eglin AFB (6/12/2006 5:13:14 AM)

I wonder how many people have actually gotten a chance to use one of these babies in PBEM? Isn't the scenario automatically over when Corsairs show up? [:D]

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GaryChildress -> RE: Trip to Mobile, Pensacola, & Eglin AFB (6/12/2006 5:17:16 AM)

Had Mogami been in the 2nd World War I found where his favorite hangout would be! This is in a mockup of the Cactus Airforce at Guadalcanal.

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GaryChildress -> RE: Trip to Mobile, Pensacola, & Eglin AFB (6/12/2006 5:21:42 AM)

Here's an F4F-4 I believe. Could be wrong on that.

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GaryChildress -> RE: Trip to Mobile, Pensacola, & Eglin AFB (6/12/2006 5:25:19 AM)

PBY...just below it on the floor, out of the picture is a full size cut away of a PBY allowing visitors to see what the planes looked like inside.

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