ausreenactor
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Was always puzzled why there was a B-26 Marauder, A'-26 Invader that became the B-26 Invader.
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AAF NOSE ART
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ausreenactor
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This is stunning in colour!
Micawber
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More 388th BG H at Knettishall....
As an aside to the above:
Before we moved a bit further east we owned a place a short walk from the old airfield at Knettishall and spent many hours over there and many in the company of a friend who set-up then run the airfield museum for many years. They have a wonderful memorial located on the site of the former HQ building. For years the memorial was tended by Percy Prentice, who sadly passed in 2018. A real Suffolk gentleman with an accent to match who I had the pleasure, and honour, to know and call a friend. Percy would very often be down at the memorial tending it, planting spring bulbs, sweeping leaves in autumn and I would invariable stop for a chat or at least exchange a cheery wave. Now Percy had history with the 388th. Being a local lad during the war he, like a lot of kids over here, would spend time up on the airfield mingling with the guys ...so much time in fact that the group adopted him as their mascot and even made him a uniform. Percy was a good old Suffolk 'bor' and much missed.
Here is Percy being inspected by none other than Gen. Doolittle..
And decades later at the 388th BG H museum..
Rest In Peace Percy..
As an aside to the above:
Before we moved a bit further east we owned a place a short walk from the old airfield at Knettishall and spent many hours over there and many in the company of a friend who set-up then run the airfield museum for many years. They have a wonderful memorial located on the site of the former HQ building. For years the memorial was tended by Percy Prentice, who sadly passed in 2018. A real Suffolk gentleman with an accent to match who I had the pleasure, and honour, to know and call a friend. Percy would very often be down at the memorial tending it, planting spring bulbs, sweeping leaves in autumn and I would invariable stop for a chat or at least exchange a cheery wave. Now Percy had history with the 388th. Being a local lad during the war he, like a lot of kids over here, would spend time up on the airfield mingling with the guys ...so much time in fact that the group adopted him as their mascot and even made him a uniform. Percy was a good old Suffolk 'bor' and much missed.
Here is Percy being inspected by none other than Gen. Doolittle..
And decades later at the 388th BG H museum..
Rest In Peace Percy..
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Grant
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The USAF reding
Blame it on the newly formed USAF re-designating the Douglas Invader the B-26 in 1947. By then, the Martin Marauder was long gone.
Blame it on the newly formed USAF re-designating the Douglas Invader the B-26 in 1947. By then, the Martin Marauder was long gone.
ausreenactor
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That is a LOT of hair...
ausreenactor
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Put Band of Brothers onto a thumb drive last night. Put Shadow in the Cloud on. Pure fiction / fantasy. Nobody could keep a baby that quiet for that long!
The Fool's Errand. Rings a bell as legit art on a WWII aircraft. Like the concept art in the movie...
The Fool's Errand. Rings a bell as legit art on a WWII aircraft. Like the concept art in the movie...
