Recent content by Wily

Hello. I don't post much here but thought you all might be interested in some new material on my website. Recently, I spent some time with four WW2 pilots - Bud Anderson (357th FG), Dick Cole (Doolittle Raider), Morris Magnuson (36th FG) and Alden Rigby (352nd FG). They presented to a...

Hello! A quick blizzard shut down travel so I took the moment to put up another of Sgt. James Hester's "WW2 Letters" on my website. Click on the little envelope on the bottom of the page. http://www.johnmollison.com

Viking - EASY! http://www.history.navy.mil/download/nasc.pdf Go to page 22. After reading the numbers, I rounded up from a high 15K ton mark. But, adding up other numbers, maybe I undershot it? I'll check later, but wanted to give you the source as fast as I could considering that the...

Hey Viking! I'm going to go back and dig through my source to find out where I got the 16,000 tons - I started research on this thing in October and the details from that particular page were pecked through then. Are there are any online references to your numbers? Clearly, there's a HUGE...

Good morning! I'm new here and 99.9% of ya'll don't know me. But, suffice it to state, I interview combat pilots and draw their airplanes. I've been working on a presentation to the Naval Air Museum and have posted a graphical version of it online. Maybe you'll be interested in this...

http://www.johnmollison.com/ Click the envelope on the bottom - posted 12/17. :)

Another WW2 letter is up. http://www.johnmollison.com Click on the envelope on the bottom of the page. I've been reading about the Okinawa campaign - I think it's tinged my thinking a bit. But it's a hell of a sketch.

Hello, RabidAlien (love the name) It was a tough decision - to put them all up or one at a time...and the decision was in the envelope itself. He sent them one at a time, they'll be displayed just like that. :) Though there's a chance they'll be acquired by a museum and displayed in groups, I...

Hello. I'm pretty much a lurker, but I forgot to make a post here that I'm sure at least one or two of you will find interesting. I interview combat pilots and draw their airplanes. Anyway, a few months ago, a woman contacted me and asked if I'd like to see the drawings her dad did in WW2...

Hey everyone. Thought you might want to read about a little-known story of D-Day and what might have been the first casualty of the invasion. Hope you like it. WWII Fighter Plane Profiles wily

Cool! Curious - have you changed any of the construction methods in the restoration? Same kind of glues? Best wishes on this project... wonderful!

Jaugernaut - Have you ever heard of "Cardmodeling"? At its core, cardmodeling is making models out of paper. If you haven't been introduced to the hobby, all sorts of subjects are available - from science fiction characters to ships to airplanes. Go to: CARD MODELS Check out the Hurri down...

Ok...done. As for a diorama, that'd be cool. Go to town on the weathering, too. Here's a factoid - on one day, the 528th FS flew 78 sorties...with 18 planes. Average mission - 2 hours. Do the math. Those birds were BEAT.

Hello! I'm new here...and looking for help. I'm a hack artist/historian and I need reference material on the 311th FG, flying out of Burma, 1944. There are two planes on my docket - both A-36s - and my references are poor quality. Plus, documentation on the 14th AF in terms of a/c...

Uh-oh. I'm busted. <S> is an in-game sign from the game, "Warbirds" - an online air-combat simulator. If you've ever flown Warbirds - especially from Beta until 2004, I was Wily or *wily*. <S> means SALUTE It's dorky...and automatic. <S> As for the other guy? Not me.