It’s certainly been hauled away somewhere, have not seen much beyond that.

Wonder where the rest of the aircraft is? Washed away I suppose.

Analyses of costs.

(wanders off with very big, very evil grin…)

Andy,

Will slap up a few diagrams and info sheets, courtesy of US Navy, of all people.

Only things which seem to have significant amounts of red are marine flares and markers, some other ordnance types had red bands around the body.

Cluster projectiles seem to have been red overall, but they were not, ah, small.

You might be after old-style 25lb incendiary bombs, listed as obsolete at the time this file was put together.

Marvelous thread, thanks to all!

No worries. Sorry I can’t help with colour schemes, however if you head over to the http://www.britmodeller.com forums, there are a lot of cammo anoraks in the ww2 aviation forum.

Information copied from Chorley’s here:

http://www.lostbombers.co.uk/bomber.php?id=5982

Apologies to mods if that’s a verboten site.

Raid info here:

http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/sep42.html

Not sure what Theo Boiten has to say about how it was brought down, as the crew are remembered on Runnymede, my guess (but it’s no more than that) is that they were likely brought down over the sea by a night fighter.

Some info on German NF claims here:

http://www.don-caldwell.we.bs/claims/tonywood.htm

If you do a search for something called LUMA, at the gyges.dk site, you’ll find a tool to translate the numerical coordinates into map references.

Best I can do from this site

http://www.usaafdata.com/search

is a Californian named Paul E. Charbonneau:

ASN:
37546605
Rank:
TS
First Name:
Paul E
Last Name:
Charbonneau
State:
CA
Day:
11
Month:
4
Year:
1944
Details:
41-29423

From the MACR database at

http://www.armyairforces.com

his aircraft is listed as follows:

A/C Serial # Date MACR Group Squadron A/C Type
41-29423 4/11/1944 3797 466 787 B-24

(Date is April 11, not November 4).

There’s some information about the 466th losses that day here:

http://forum.armyairforces.com/tm.aspx?m=146951&high=41-29423

Can’t find any Charbonnets, either with the USAAF or with the Commonwealth forces.