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May 30, 2011 at 9:24 pm in reply to: Seafire Mk. XV #515446

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March 14, 2011 at 4:42 pm in reply to: Where is this? #1089098

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Thanks to everyone for their help in identifying the Great Dunmow pic, should’ve known better than to assume it was the same location. There were also some pics of 386th Bomb Group Marauders in the group that should’ve told me Great Dunmow.

March 14, 2011 at 7:20 am in reply to: Where is this? #1089523

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This photo was in the same set of photos, but it is unknown if it’s the same base.

March 7, 2011 at 6:35 am in reply to: Watson Lake, Alaska 1943-1945 #1096455

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At the risk of being pedantic, photo 4 is not a Lockheed Hudson…it’s a Lockheed 18 Lodestar..probably within the NC33663 to NC33668 range.

Hudson refers to the RAF/Commonwealth armed aircraft based on the Lockheed 14 Super Electra.

Thanks for catching my mistake. I meant to put a question mark after that one because I wasn’t sure.

The women are wearing USAAF issue cold weather flying gear, so I’d still guess USO.

March 6, 2011 at 5:53 pm in reply to: Watson Lake, Alaska 1943-1945 #1096918

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#15 Is another P-39 Airacobra, heading to the USSR with the large ferry tank
#16 They could be women ferry pilots, but probably are a USO troupe since there is a lot of brass standing around.
#18 B-25 Mitchells
#19 A-20 Havoc, Consolidated B-24D Liberator and a C-47
#20 Norseman
#21 A-20 Havoc
#22 Norseman on floats again

March 6, 2011 at 8:00 am in reply to: Watson Lake, Alaska 1943-1945 #1097346

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Lets see how manu I got right (with the ones J Boyle alreadt I.D.’d).

P-36
P-40
Lockheed Hudson
P-38 Lightning
Boeing 247
Bell P-39Q Airacobra (s/n 44-2092) went to USSR
P-47 Thunderbolt
L-2
P-47 Thunderbolt
Bell P-39N Airacobra (s/n 42-9578) with a ferry tank, sent to USSR
North American B-25 Mitchell
Douglas A-20 Havoc (maybe a P-70?)
Noorduyn UC-64 Norseman

January 31, 2011 at 6:36 am in reply to: How the 'ell did he fly that home!!(old thread 2006) #1138651

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A hole made by a 20mm cannon shell from a Japanese fighter, in the side of a B-24 Liberator. Note the splice in the rudder control cables, made by the bombardier (Lt. Louis Zamperini, in photo) using the arming safety wires from the bombs. The plane made it back to base with almost 600 holes in it and every enlisted man wounded (one later died).

January 31, 2011 at 6:26 am in reply to: How the 'ell did he fly that home!!(old thread 2006) #1138655

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A 15th Air Force B-24 Liberator with the top of the fuselage blown out by a flak burst that killed both waist gunners.

January 31, 2011 at 6:20 am in reply to: How the 'ell did he fly that home!!(old thread 2006) #1138658

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P-47D-30-RE Thunderbolt (s/n 44-21054) from the 364th Fighter Squadron,350th Fighter Group. It was being flown by Lt. Richard Sulzbach on April 1,1945 during a strafing mission in Italy. Sulzbach got a little too low and flew through a grove of trees. He limped the plane 120 miles back to base and made a good landing. The plane was repaired and flew again.

September 22, 2010 at 11:49 pm in reply to: Wings Over Whiteman 2010 #534555

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It is interesting to note that Whiteman AFB was opened on August 6,1942 as Sedalia Glider Base (Sedalia,Missouri is a nearby town). It was where a lot of the glider pilots and the pilots of the tug aircraft were trained. Quite a bit of the Waco CG-4 production occurred only about 50 miles from Whiteman, in Kansas City,Missouri and Kansas.

July 4, 2010 at 2:04 am in reply to: Post your WW1 aircraft pics! #1092335

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Breguet 14 from the 96th Aero Squadron.

Fokker D.VII

Salmson 2A2

June 21, 2010 at 10:03 pm in reply to: Liberator crash at Fairy Lochs, 1945 #1107426

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http://www.b24bestweb.com/sleepytimegal-v7.htm
Here is a link to a photo of the nose art, albeit of poor quality.

June 21, 2010 at 10:22 am in reply to: Liberator crash at Fairy Lochs, 1945 #1108145

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Info I’ve seen said it was a 44th Bomb Group B-24 that crashed there named “Sleepy Time Gal” (s/n 42-95095). Two other sources (B24BestWeb and the 93rd Bomb Group Assn. site) say that this plane was from the 328th Bomb Squadron, 93rd Bomb Group. I think the USAAF used a few Bomb Groups as clearing houses for personnel returning home and transfered planes into those groups before the flight home. I know the 458th Bomb Group was one of those used for this, the 44th must have been too.

There were 15 men aboard for the flight, the 9 man crew and 6 passengers.

1st Lt. Jack B. Ketchum – pilot
1st Lt. Jack H. Spencer – copilot
2nd Lt. Richard J. Robak – navigator
T/Sgt. Hollburn L. Cheek – engineer
T/Sgt. James C. Stammer – radio operator
S/Sgt. Eldon J. Giles – gunner
S/Sgt. Albert L. Natkin – gunner
S/Sgt. Raymond E. Davis – gunner
S/Sgt. Herman Riefen – gunner

S/Sgt. John B. Ellis,Jr. – passenger
S/Sgt. James D. Harvey – passenger
S/Sgt. Alexander W. Hastings – passenger
S/Sgt. Emil Einarsen – passenger
S/Sgt. John H. Hallissey – passenger
S/Sgt. Robert J. Francis – passenger

June 21, 2010 at 10:01 am in reply to: Liberator crash at Fairy Lochs, 1945 #1108251

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There are certainly no significant areas of trees, just some smaller areas of rowan. I have seen wreckage further away from the crash site presumably spread out from the crash impact but certainly nothing that had any kind of art work. My father recalls coming across a Browning cooling sleeve and a flying boot in the 60’s whilst out walking near the site which must have been dropped by the recovery team.

Was Sleepy Time Gal not a P61?

The name “Sleept Time Gal” was probably one of the most popular aircraft names during the war, there were at least 10 B-24 Liberators that carried the name.

June 8, 2010 at 3:27 am in reply to: An impressive film about a Mustang veteran #1124133

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Excellent! The woman singing the song during the end credits is Brook’s wife, Martha.
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