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Post # 3196 (KAKI). A memorial presumably to the RAF airmen killed in the bombers listed ( Wellington / Blenheim/ Whitley ?/ Hampden ), not unusual this early in the war; the inscription reads (as I see it)... " In his mind he counts his loved ones because these are the ones missing".


Nick

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https://www.ebay.com/itm/40532750569...QAAOSwAOxnKPq6
https://www.ebay.de/itm/226445873516...Bk9SR4KV5qLkZA

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This is an odd collection (photo 1), the 368BS was with the 306BG Eighth AF; B-17F 42-30667 ("Wild children") was 390BG also Eighth AF, lost 11-12-43 on the Emden mission.
"Frank Buck" ( B-17E 41-2659) is interesting, 19BG then 43BG Fifth AF; she force-landed on the beach at Hood Point PNG Sept.15 1942 after a Rabaul raid and some PSP matting was delivered by boat to help her take-off to P. Moresby. The markings above the name are 5 Rising sun flags. Her nickname was "Bring 'em back alive", Buck was a famous game hunter.

There is an account of the 42-30667 event in the Netherlands here:


http://franckruffino.chez.com/My-Sit...2042-30667.htm


Regards
Nick

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https://www.ebay.de/itm/226445873516...Bk9SR4KV5qLkZA

And this one is from the 1920s Ed :)
Cheers
Stig

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Thank you Nick. The big game hunter was something I encountered in a few Hollywood movies where the well-armed man was photographed with one foot on his kill.


Best,
Ed

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Images 1, 2, 3 above seem to be Whitley V of 102 Squadron N1377

https://asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/53865

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Photos 4-5, the much-photographed B-17F 42-3040 OR-Q (91BG) "Miss Ouachita" shot down by Maj. Heinz Baer 6./JG1 on 21 Feb. 1944 (some sources say 22nd. but MACR 2457 has 21st.); she was strafed by US fighters on the ground. This was Mission 228 but the 1st. Division had no PFF aircraft so bombed targets of opportunity.
Nick

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Thanks Nick. Much appreciated.


Ed