An e-quaintance of mine flew with the USAF’s 13th Bomb Squadron in Korea during 1951/52 (he also later flew B-57s in Vietnam). He has recently sent me a Seedy Ron full of interesting and historic pix showing their A-26s at Iwakuni Air Base. Thought the forum may care to have a look at a few. If you like these there’s more, including some nose-art pictures. Also included here are a couple of “foreigners”, RAAF and FAA<?>.
Pix are . . .
1 – 13th Bomb Sqn Flight Line
2 – Versitile Lady
3 – Moonshine
4 – 7th Chadwick
5 – RAAF P-51s
6 – Sea Furies
(The annotations on the bottom of the photos are the names of the guys who took the pictures.)
By: TEXANTOMCAT - 7th October 2004 at 18:02
Brilliant – thank you so much!
TT
By: Blue Leader - 7th October 2004 at 09:28
It Just gets better, thanks LesB
By: LesB - 7th October 2004 at 09:18
Today’s offerings, a bunch of nose art. Not sure if our younger readers should see this stuff, :rolleyes: so don’t look at the pictures for to long, OK?
Pics are . . .
1 – Brown Nose
2 – Maiden USA
3 – Oscar (went on to become the “Grim Reapers” logo)
4 – 5th Chadwick
6 – Empty Saddle
7 – Reddy & Willing
8 – TOC SAN
9 – Effects of a low-level cable strike. No idea how the prop got away with it though.
By: Blue Leader - 6th October 2004 at 13:25
Fantastic stuff Les. It’s stuff like this that makes this forum such as great place to hang out! 😀
I’ll agree with that!! Thanks LesB, these are fantastic pieces of history that have been captured. 🙂
By: adrian_gray - 6th October 2004 at 13:24
There was a very similar photo of “The 7th Chadwick” in Flypast(?) recently. But now we know what happened to the 6th!
What an astonishing set of pictures – thank you for sharing them with us!
Adrian
By: planejunky - 6th October 2004 at 13:16
Fantastic stuff Les. It’s stuff like this that makes this forum such as great place to hang out! 😀
By: Ant.H - 6th October 2004 at 12:47
Lovelly stuff,keep ’em coming Les. 🙂 Martin,thanks for your info on the roundals. The airworthy Meteor at Temora in Oz is painted up as a Korean War example and has the ‘meatball’ roundals now I come to think of it (like ‘616’ above).
By: Swiss Mustangs - 6th October 2004 at 09:49
thanks a million
any more P-51’s and perhaps T-6G Mosquito FAC ships ?
Cheers
Martin
By: LesB - 6th October 2004 at 09:26
A few more from the collection.
1 – 13th BS Flight Line 1952
2 – “Big O”
3 – B.26 Formation
4 – Bomb drop
5 – “Brown Nose”
6 – 8-gun nose, panels open
7 – RAAF Meteor
8 – Low flying battle damage
9 – B.26, Sqn Code “Victor”
There are quite a few left from this magnificent collection so if you all are still interested I’ll post a few a dayover the next week or so.
By: Swiss Mustangs - 6th October 2004 at 08:32
the pic of RAAF Mustangs got me wondering-when did the RAAF adopt the Kangaroo emblem for the centre of the roundal? I’d thought it had already been adopted by the time of Korea.
Ant
in Korea, No. 77 Sqdn flew with this form of roundel, both on the P-51’s and later Meteors.
Martin
By: Swiss Mustangs - 6th October 2004 at 08:24
Awesome !
Love the variety of Invaders-markings and of course the P-51’s – No. 77 Sqdn RAAF !
Any more ? Thanks big time for sharing !
Martin / Swiss Mustangs
By: O.P. - 6th October 2004 at 00:54
Those are fantastic! More please! I love the A-26.
By: Ant.H - 6th October 2004 at 00:45
Wow! Thanks Les,and to your “E-aquaintence”,the pics are great. The quality is amazingly good considering thier age.Any more per chance???
I don’t mean to take this thread too far off the beaten track,but the pic of RAAF Mustangs got me wondering-when did the RAAF adopt the Kangaroo emblem for the centre of the roundal? I’d thought it had already been adopted by the time of Korea.
By: turbo_NZ - 6th October 2004 at 00:43
Great pics, Les,…thanks !!!!!!!!!! 🙂 🙂
Do you have any more to share ?
TNZ
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