Having read a few books on the subject and thought about the ‘pet names’ applied to ‘planes during the last big one…..and since….. with some very clever twists …..Lakanooki, Evelyn Tentions…..etc etc, cartoon names, partners names, made up, sayings etc etc, what would you have named your personal mounts if you where a front line combat pilot in WW2…and please, any who actually do have combat experience in that conflict, please let us know what you actually used, would love to know as well as being interesting
One name for a single engined fighter and one for a multi engined bomber, and of course it would be emblazoned on your side if in a multi, or on the entry side if in a single.
You can be from any, or fly for any nationality, but you must provide two names, one for each type above.
My offers….
Single: Yahoooo !…in pill box red with black letter outlining
Multi: Watch The Paint !….in orange with yellow letter outlining
both in big letters !
Your turn….
By: DazDaMan - 7th March 2005 at 08:23
Hmmm…
If I were flying a Spit, it would be “The Lady” or “The Beast”, depending on the engine fitted.
Dunno about a multi-engined type, though. Will have to think of something not so hackneyed!
By: Smith - 7th March 2005 at 05:15
Ah well – front-line WWII. I’d be flying a Halifax III or a Spitfire.
The Halibag would be “big car”, this is the term used by German nightfighters to describe 4 engined bombers. God knows how I would have known that.
The Spit would be “Kiwi” of course (once Al Deere got out of the limelight) or “Mary” (my far better half) and that wasn’t used up till later (in fact last).
By: Corsair166b - 7th March 2005 at 04:51
If I’d been flying Corsairs in WWII like I was SUPPOSED to, being from Colorado like I am, it would have been ‘The Coloradan’…a tribute to my home state….I know there was a Sherman tank with a similar name (but I also know a LOT of names were repeated during the war…as it is, Colorado was well represented with the battleship USS Colorado BB-45, the USS Denver (a cruiser then, a landing ship today) and some others…
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March 6, 2005 at 10:47 pm