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Hi Stig,
Those "8's"sure look like "9's" to me I even enlarged the picture to make sure ,also wondered about what looked like Sqdn code "RT"?. However I bow to your expertise. So L8857, RT⊙T it is All the very best for 2025 Alex |
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Hi all,
I have this Blenheim like L8857 too. More photo from e-bay: https://modelari.org/viewtopic.php?t=3080 Faenor |
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Is this confirmed as RT-T?
All photos I have seen only show RT on both sides (on the left side the squadron code is to the rear) |
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Thanks Ed.
Second one is Battle K9273/HA-R of 218 Sqn, abandoned at Auberive 15th May 40. |
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Hi Ed. I know a few..............( tail markings on B-29s)..
Photo 2. B-29 "Ellie Barbara and her orphans" 42-63605 (16BG Guam). Diamond "B". 3. B-29 "Ready Bettie / City of Roanoke VA" 44-69817 (330BG Guam). Sq. K-4. 4. B-29 "The Confederate Soldier" 44-61524 (39BG Guam). Sq. P-09. 6. B-24D (with added nose turret) 42-40089 "Flying 8 Ball", 307BG after air raid on Funafuti 21/22 April 1943. 7. B-29 42-6242, early aircraft but to 468BG India as "Esso Express" ( refers to hauling gas to China). 2-yellow rudder stripes. Regards Nick |
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Thank you very much Nick.
Best, Ed |
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Thanks Nick for these info thanks to the serial of tails. And about #7 could it be a B-29 post-war ? TIA Bertrand |
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There is another photo of the same aircraft dated to Nov 1943, no doubt on the same photo shoot! It has the brown-grey camo which was deleted when the type went into combat in the Pacific. Only seen aircraft based in China using that. 42-6242 was officially delivered to USAAF 3 Nov 1943 and handed over to 794BS 468BG and departed for the CBI theater in April 1944 and used as Nick says. Cheers Stig |
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There were several photos taken when she came from the Wichita factory; the early ones in India were Olive Drab / Neutral Gray as Stig says. After 30 missions over the "Hump" she was declared "War Weary" (not surprisingly) and returned to us in Nov. 44.
She went to Lowry Field CO, at the time AAF Training Command, taken off inventory and allocated for "Reclaimation" ie. scrapping on 7 July 46. All her missions were ferrying fuel etc.to forward airfields in China (58th Wing) from Kharagpur in India. The last 3 digits of the serial were marked in large numbers above the serial and the 2 rudder stripes were diagonal. Bertrand. Korean B-29 were unpainted but many had Gloss Black undersides for night missions. Nick |
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Many thanks Stig and Nick for your precise replies and Ed for the links!
Bertrand |
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You're welcome Bertrand.
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https://www.ebay.de/itm/356531132279...Bk9SR67M4f-aZQ
Book 1946 PIRATE'S LOG A Historical Record Of The Sixth Bombardment Group B-29 Tinian https://www.ebay.com/itm/38774248309...AYQPSRFWQWTK26 |
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post 3301 VG33 1940, On the other hand, I don't know if it's in Mérignac. @+ Joël |
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#3304 : MB152 n° 658 of DAT Châteauroux Martinerie ; same photo already published in Avions n° 179 pages 62
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sold on e-bay in the past. They are unfortunately very blurry so impossible to know if it is the same aircraft in these photos. At least two are visible in one shot. Not sure if the VG 33s were assembled at V but many certainly made their first flights from that field. Cheers Stig |
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Post 3310 # 2 looks like Blenheim R2780/YH-A of 21 Sqn.
It was abandoned at Almyros in Greece, rather than France as the seller states. |
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The B-17G is interesting, 42-38017 (349/100) was damaged believed by 2 B-17s shot down above her on Mission 246 to Berlin March 3 1944; force-landed at Schleswig-Land airfield by Ju.88s en-route to Sweden, then taken on by 1./KG200 (probably as A3-BB) for short-range ops. carrying agents and supplies. On a mission 3 March 1945 shot down by a night fighter (possibly US) at Luvigny (Vosges).
She was named "One mission LuLu" just before the Berlin mission as the crew's regular B-17 was out of action. Nick |
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I thought the aircraft shot down as A3+BB on 3 March 1945 was 42-3190?
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The Fortress Log states 42-38017 was damaged and set on fire by German fighters.
The crew extinguished the fire and headed for Sweden when they were intercepted by Ju 88 fighters and forced to land at Jagel. It was "repaired" by Luftwaffe only to be destroyed a couple of days later, still at Jagel. Cheers Stig |
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Hi Andy. 42-3190 was an "F" and A3-BB in Stahl's KG200 History (a former member) was a "G" according to a flight log, flying missions 54-60; 42-3190 was Stkz. SJ-KY, later A3-CE as listed in the LEMB database.
42-38017 in a National Archives Report says lost 3 March 45 on operations, Pilot Fhrn. Helmut Schenderlein and 10 crew-passengers killed; a report that she was strafed by Allied fighters before fully repaired was unconfirmed (Stig's post). Possibly coded A3-GE; there were several instances though where 1./2. Staffeln changed codes. Nick |
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