BlueNoser352Steve:
Sorry about my photo’s not scan properly..will retry and see what happens !
TC
BlueNoser352Steve great looking B-3 !
Steve:
Thanks for reply and what a great looking B-3 jacket, great art work sir !
I see you picked out a 100 BG theme , the Square D boys for TA! Here is are several photos of one of my all time favorites from the USAF museum in Dayton Ohio….great looking A-2 and painted by the pilot himself. Always enjoy your collection photographs and model/artwork ! Hope all is well with you and family in the UK !
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BlueNoser352I know of the A-2 Jacket you speak of !
A-2 Jacket : Yankee dood it ” !!!!
Yes airborneradar I know of the very jacket you speak of and its on display at the USAF Museum in Dayton , Ohio. I tried to scan an attachment tonight but it did not work. Sometimes it hard to do this will try agian! I know there is a great photograph in color of this very A-2 in a book called “Classy Chassie” or something to that effect. I have it in my collection will try and find it and send you a scan if I can make this darn thing work !!!! Sent you a message and will try and find out the original crew member who wore this jacket. I believe he had 35 missions …great looking A-2 and super art work !
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BlueNoser352A-2 Flying jackets !!!!!!!!!
My all time favorite A-2 from the 401st BG ( H) that operated out of Deenethrope with the Mighty Eighth during the war. I located most of the crew members during the early 90’s but sadly this very jacket was given to a gunners younger brother and lost ! Tried to find the original as I did with the one you can see today in the American Air Museum at Duxford… ” Mary Alice”.
Its on display there and belonged to Dan Knight who flew Mary Alice with the 401st during the war. Photo of the famed “Diabolical Angel”..from my notes this nose art was done for about five bucks during the war. Today the original would be priceless !!!! Always enjoy this forum and its a pleasure to drop by from time to time to see what is going on ! Hope to return soon to the UK and another Duxford air show and to the home of the Mighty Eighth !
Would love to buy that control at Bodney and restore it as a tribute to the men who flew from there and our fine friends in the UK ! If anyone is close and happens to drive by Bodney,,would love to see a photo or two of the old tower here on the forum !!!
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BlueNoser352Wow…. nice to see this topic come up again and it was from March of 2004, love this topic of nose art and flying jackets. Anyone have a new A-2 to your collection that you have painted up since 2004 ? Always enjoy the ones I have seen at the Duxford airshows over the years. If any of you are over in the states , make sure you visit the Mighty Eighth Museum in Savannah, Georgia. They have so many originals there and its a great museum to visit as well. I am like many of you just amazed at how much these vintage A-2’s originals have grown in value. One only has to look from time to time on Ebay to see this. Don’t have any originals in my collecitons, just jackets I have bought and had worked up by my artist. Plus photo’s and books one finds on the subject ! Anyone one here in the FLYPAST added a new one to you collection on an original you perhaps own ? Would enjoy seeing it on the board !
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BlueNoser352Nice to see its on the market soon in the UK…what took it so long to be sold there? I was happy to buy mine from Amzon.Ca when it came out but did not like the fact it came with no extras..like the making of and other goodies we now see with a DVD release. Nice to see it coming out in the UK !
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BlueNoser352B-25 Lake Greenwood SC Recovery
Just wish it would have been a BlueNose P-51 !!!!!!!!!!!!! Shot of the restored B-25 in 94 at a Doolittle Raiders reunion in Columbia SC !
BlueNoser352B-25 Recovered in Lake Greenwood SC USA
I took these photo’s of the recovery of a B-25 Mitchell in the 1980’s, aircraft in pretty good condition and is now on display at Owens Field in Columbia, South Carolina USA. Crashed on June 6th 1944 on a training flight , the crewed were rescued and I meet the pilot who came back to see his aircraft ! He later flew B-25’s in combat in the CIB !
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BlueNoser352This took place last year and reports that there are several more WWII wrecks in Lake Murrary, near Columbia, South Carolina USA were this show was filmed. I believe the aircraft was taken to a museum in Alabama to be restored to static display. The program did locate one of the crew members and did recover some nice artifacts. In 1985 there was also another B-25 pulled in rather good condition from a lake in Greenwood, South Carolina. The plane was restored and is one display in Columbia , SC. Many US Army Air Bases were in operation in South Carolina during the war and B-25’s were among the many types of aircraft based at these training facilities ! I was present during the one in the early 80’s and will scan some photos here if I can find them. That plane crashed into the lake on all days…………… June 6th 1944 ! The crew were saved and the pilot sent to the CBI for his time in a B-25 !!!!
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BlueNoser352Well ask and you shall recieve!!!!!!!!!! Thanks
Ummm real as your ever going to get.Now in the UK under restoration.
Thanks QldSpitty……………..what a great find…..!!!
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BlueNoser352JohnEboy…great photo !!!!!!!!!
Great photo and one can just feel and hear the sound of that lovely Merlin humming along to get that stang in the air !!!!!!!! What in the H#ll is this about someone wanting to build a service station on the M-11 at the end of the runway???????????? Saw the link on the BBC LookEast program….what a lame idea……………… is this true?????????????? It has to be halted at once!
P-51’s from the 352nd will form up and shoot up the place !!!!!!!!!!
Great photo !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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BlueNoser352I have just finished watching the Wildfire/Channel Four production on the Bader Spitfire program thanks to one fine individual from the forum and was very impressed with its content. Great television and its nice to see documentaries still being produced on the Second World War. My complments to the production team and Andy Saunders for a first class production and what tremendous research went into the program. Working here in television news I can tell you getting a chance to be part of a production like this is a great and rare opportunity. Sure hope this story will be offered on DVD and will make it way across the big pond for a US audience to see. The story in many ways is very similar to that of Maj George E. Preddy Jr and his being downed by friendly fire. Some individuals here in the US with the 352nd Fighter Group Association had tried to locate the final resting place of the Majors last “Cripes A’ Mighty”. Bader was indeed a very complex individual but one can’t deny his bravery and his accomplishents with the RAF and after the war with his foundiation. BlueNoser352 was glued to the telly on this one and will watch it again many times , having read and collected many books on this man , it was a nice addition for those of us who study and admire the men who flew in this war. Hope we see more programs like this ! On fine body of work here ..congrats from a Yank across the big pond !
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BlueNoser352Yes many groups in the Eighth did similar things for individuals who compeleted their tours with the group…be it 25 missions..30 missions or 35…etc. There are also awards for parachuting out of a bomber as well. Looks like Sgt Richardson completed 33 missions and was in the 100th BG. No doubt an award well earned ! Thanks for the picture Papa Lima..enjoyed looking at this ! If you ever get a chance to visit the Mighty Eighth musuem in Savannah, Georgia do so…devoted the Eighth …full of stuff to see.
Thanks !
TC
BlueNoser352Andy:
Thanks and hope we will see this perhaps on The History Channel…..would be nice !
Thanks !
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BlueNoser352Mark & fellow FlyPast forum members…wow! read with great interest the program on Sir Douglas Bader’s aircraft and the documentary. Having read many books on the man and things I have here on this forum over the years..sure hope this makes it over here so we can see it in the USA. It took about a year before “Spitfire Ace” made it over here on History International ..so perhaps we can keep our fingers crossed. One of the great leaders in the RAF and a man I admire for his refusal to give up . We could use more men like him in todays world. A salute to this production company for doing this documentary..at least you guys are still keeping the memory and history alive of this time period. Have enjoyed this forum for years and a great place to learn history from a great group here ! Was hoping to head over from the Oct Duxford airshow but could not make it happen this year.! Wanted to get in a visit to Bodney and check in with my favorite airfield from a time long ago…anybody driven by the base lately and what is the current status of the old control tower ? Thanks and hope all will have a good week !
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