I know some incredible colour footage of B-26 European operations have been available on YouTube for a while but some more has been found and posted, it is well worth spending 6:38 of your life watching it, or longer if you watch it over and over again like I have.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFwQ69si-Ig
Richard
By: adrian_gray - 29th January 2017 at 21:05
Smashing,thank you. Will show Dad at the weekend. He could well have seen them out of Earls Colne.
Adrian
By: Flat 12x2 - 29th January 2017 at 19:57
Anyone know which bomb groups and airfields are represented?
Adrian
RJ codes are for the 454th Sqn. & WT are the 456th, both of the 323rd bombardment group based at Earls Colne & Beaulieu, then France. The white bar on the upper part of the tails on all the aircraft is the 323rd’s id, ‘the White tails’
By: adrian_gray - 29th January 2017 at 17:32
Anyone know which bomb groups and airfields are represented?
Adrian
By: Duggy - 29th January 2017 at 16:20
By: ozplane - 29th January 2017 at 15:19
Some amazing footage there, thanks for posting. I wonder if the B-26 with the smoky starboard engine made it back? I was surprised at the tight formation they were keeping. I would have thought that gave the flak gunners a bigger target.
By: Duggy - 29th January 2017 at 15:10
Thank you, a wonderful find.
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