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What is in that box in the back of grandpa's closet? - EndtheMadnessNow - 02-09-2025

What do you have in your closet?

What steps are you willing to take to pull living history out of the shadows?

In WWII - are you willing to go over Nazi Germany alone, unarmed... dozens of times?

Flying Sargeant. Americans in Supermarine Spitfires.

In 2005, an 83 year-old World War II pilot is surprised to see 16mm footage of his 1944 Spitfire crash for the first time.

Really amazing short story.



The film is complex in that it is a photographic record of a man reviewing a photographic record of his own photographic record-making process (a wartime photo-reconnaissance flight) across a timespan of 61 years. The film includes several high-altitude reconnaissance photos taken by Blyth.

Blyth was interviewed by BBC in 2011 for their docu Operation Crossbow.

Here's some photos...


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Aerial photos taken by Blyth:

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Photo source for the 14th & 22nd Photo Squadron, 7th Photo Recon Group at American Air Museum in Britain. Around a 1,000 photos.

Hi-res Aerial Photos by John S. Blyth on Flickr