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19-10-2007, 12:40 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2   | Boeing Superfortress Just came across this older article on B-29 names. Only a couple of noseart pics but some great, amusing cartoons about the various crewmembers. http://www.fredonia.edu/faculty/emer...b29/index.html
__________________ http://www.454-459squadrons.org.au/. http://www.awm.gov.au/index.asp  Aircraft from No. 60 Squadron levelling out for the "run in" to make a mast-head attack on a Japanese coaster off Akyab. Courtesy AWM. |
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19-10-2007, 12:54 AM
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You're Top Poster: #1  | Loved "Teaser", and love the sound of "Honeybucket Honshos"
__________________ _________________  Beaufighter TF Mark Xs (NV427 'EO-L' nearest) of No. 404 Squadron RCAF based at Dallachy, Morayshire, breaking formation during a flight along the Scottish coast. February 1945. |
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19-10-2007, 01:00 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | Yep, B-29s provided some of the best "canvas" for noseart. There were some pretty talented artists doing the work too!
__________________ http://www.454-459squadrons.org.au/. http://www.awm.gov.au/index.asp Aircraft from No. 60 Squadron levelling out for the "run in" to make a mast-head attack on a Japanese coaster off Akyab. Courtesy AWM. |
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19-10-2007, 02:03 AM
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You're Top Poster: #1 | Some more nose art: http://www.mrprophead.com/b29nose.htm http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Qu...9/noseart.html
__________________ _________________ Beaufighter TF Mark Xs (NV427 'EO-L' nearest) of No. 404 Squadron RCAF based at Dallachy, Morayshire, breaking formation during a flight along the Scottish coast. February 1945. |
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19-10-2007, 02:06 AM
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You're Top Poster: #1 | And B-29 nose art from the Korean war: http://home.comcast.net/~noseart/0noseart.html The site also has a listing of the B-29s used diring the Korean war: http://mywebpages.comcast.net/b29sin...MasterList.htm
__________________ _________________ Beaufighter TF Mark Xs (NV427 'EO-L' nearest) of No. 404 Squadron RCAF based at Dallachy, Morayshire, breaking formation during a flight along the Scottish coast. February 1945. |
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19-10-2007, 02:08 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | I found it unbelievable when I posted the amount of these the US manufactured during ww2 (3,898) With respect to the deaths from the dropping of the Atomic bombs, it is much clearer now that they would have bombed Japan out of existence if left to use conventional warfare. (Strategic bombing)
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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19-10-2007, 02:18 AM
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You're Top Poster: #1 | The section on Japan in this wiki article highlights what you're saying Spidge. The table of percentage of destruction of Japanese cities shows how affect the USAAF was: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strateg...panese_bombing
__________________ _________________ Beaufighter TF Mark Xs (NV427 'EO-L' nearest) of No. 404 Squadron RCAF based at Dallachy, Morayshire, breaking formation during a flight along the Scottish coast. February 1945. |
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19-10-2007, 02:27 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | Some of my all time fave noseart in those links, Kyt. I was trying to remember my fave from Korea and found her. I've got the 1/48 B-29 at home that I'll never build but I even went as far as deciding to do her with the black undersides and even got the decals for her. http://home.comcast.net/~noseart/niponnees.jpg
__________________ http://www.454-459squadrons.org.au/. http://www.awm.gov.au/index.asp Aircraft from No. 60 Squadron levelling out for the "run in" to make a mast-head attack on a Japanese coaster off Akyab. Courtesy AWM. |
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19-10-2007, 02:36 AM
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You're Top Poster: #1 | The B-29 has never really rocked my boat. Not sure why. Maybe I need to read something about the crews and missions.
__________________ _________________ Beaufighter TF Mark Xs (NV427 'EO-L' nearest) of No. 404 Squadron RCAF based at Dallachy, Morayshire, breaking formation during a flight along the Scottish coast. February 1945. |
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19-10-2007, 02:38 AM
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You're Top Poster: #1 | B-29 Hunters of the JAAF http://wgordon.web.wesleyan.edu/kami...kaki/index.htm Not a fan of Osprey books (over-priced for what they offer) but this one does sound interesting
__________________ _________________ Beaufighter TF Mark Xs (NV427 'EO-L' nearest) of No. 404 Squadron RCAF based at Dallachy, Morayshire, breaking formation during a flight along the Scottish coast. February 1945. |
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