Hey, I'm delighted to see this thread resurface!
A couple comments:
* Tom Loades correctly pointed out that the last photo was of a tornado in Erie/Temperance, MI, on the same day as the Flint/Beecher tornado. Tom, you also mention that no photos were ever taken of the Beecher F5. But in my rummagings through Internet resources on the event, I did come across two color photos of the parent supercell.
* That twin funnel photo shown earlier is the unofficial icon of the 1965 Palm Sunday Outbreak. That shot is one of a series of five spectacular photos captured by Elkhart Truth photographer Paul Huffman as the tornado swept across the fields and into the Midway Trailer Park two miles south of Dunlap, a small town located just south of Elkhart. To me, that classic photo remains one of the most dramatic tornado photos ever taken. The damage was rated at F4, which probably matters little where trailer parks are concerned. Forty-five minutes after the twin-funnel shot was taken, as recue operations were underway, a second, still more powerful tornado swept in from the west and did F5 damage in Dunlap. Last year, I made a couple visits to the area, with the intention of locating the site of the Midway Trailer Park. The park is long gone and part of the area was being bulldozed in preparation for an overpass over US 33. The house in the foreground is no more, and US 33 is now lined with businesses. But I did find what had to have been the northern end of the park. Old electrical hookups for the trailers poked up from the ground here and there among the trees. It was a place filled with ghosts--as was the little memorial park on a quiet street corner in the Sunnyside area of Dunlap. But I ramble. If you, like me, are fascinated by the Palm Sunday Outbreak, you owe it to yourself to visit your library and get hold of The Mighty Whirlwind by David Wagler. The book was published in the same year as the outbreak, which gives you some idea of the immediacy of the reportage. It is a stellar work, at once personal and professional, and particularly fascinating in its description of multivortex structure and satellite tornadoes in a day when such phenomena weren't recognized.