13's.... (2 Viewers)

[Wayne Little]

Do it Jan.

There are plenty of shots of Herbert Maxis White 13, shot down during Bodenplatte, was shot and killed after climbing out of his belly landed aircraft.

 

[Lucky13]

Aye, remember seeing those pics of his body, no boots etc...
Isn't it said, or wasn't he was strafing the US troops on the ground?

Found my RAAF 'Cat' though! 8)

 

[Wayne Little]

yeah, he was strafing a convoy when hit by AA, he turned to attack again, was hit a second time and crash landed, he was shot after exiting his aircraft, there are a few versions of why he was shot....

 

[Lucky13]

Aye, remember seeing that...

Any idea what camouflage on this '13' would be Wayne?

RAAF A-24 Catalina;

A24-13, C/N 307;

Delivered by Qantas as VH-AFN 19/09/41.
11 Sqn 16/11/41.
MIA 24/02/42, Rabaul.

Crew;
SQNLDR Ern Beaumont (Pilot),
PLTOFF Michael Evans (2nd Pilot),
SGT Ray Richardson, (2nd Wireless Op/Air Gunner),
CPL Ray Adams (1st Engineer),
LAC Max Berghouse (2nd Engineer),
LAC George Formby (1st Wireless Op),
LAC Clive Grainger (Rigger),
AC1 Leonard Farrands (Armour).

 

[taktik]

 

[Lucky13]

Great stuff Taktik, some with sad contents though...
Btw, if I may ask you, I've just bought a Tupolev Tu-2s, you haven't come across any '13' there? Been looking around for that, plus the Tu-16 Badger, Tu-95 Bear and Tu-22 Blinder, which I might get either of, for my birthday!

 

[taktik]

Photo Tu-2 I posted on the previous page.
Tu-16

 

[Lucky13]

So it is, sorry about that Taktik! Question is, is it an -S, -T or an -VS?

Are those Tu-16's the Badger G?

 

[taktik]

This is probably the Tu-2S after the war the airfield Shongyi.

 

[Wurger]

Here you are all NATO codes for Tu-16 variants. Jan , the one in the profile is Tu16R according to the caption ( Tu-16P). So it is Badger F.

Tupolew Tu-16A / Badger-A
Tupolew Tu-16KS-1 / Badger-B
Tupolew Tu-16K-10 / Badger-C
Tupolew Tu-16R / Badger-D
Tupolew Tu-16 / Badger-E
Tupolew Tu-16R / Badger-F
Tupolew Tu-16 / Badger-G
Tupolew Tu-16K / Badger-G Mod
Tupolew Tu-16PP / Badger-K
Tupolew Tu-16 / Badger-L

 

[Lucky13]

That's a lot of Badgers! I think that Trumpeter only do the C and G version... Cheers lads!

 

[Wurger]

Thanks to Lord there is more letters in the English alphabet.
The Chinese one can't come in handy if there are C and G letters only.

 

[Lucky13]

Have to say that I like the styling of the Tu-16, Tu-22 Blinder, Tu-28 (128), Tu-95 and the Mi...Mu...Miy...Myasishchev M-4! If it looks right and all that, plus....that Tu-128 Fiddler is just massive as an interceptor, bigger than some bombers!

 

[Wurger]

Yep these are really impressive. Especially the Mjasiszczew M-4...

 

[Lucky13]

Aye, the Bison! Looks great! What was it, only 90 or so built?

 

[Wurger]

Or so, as memo serves.

 

[Wayne Little]

Aye, remember seeing that...

Any idea what camouflage on this '13' would be Wayne.

I'm thinking late greens 81/82 with the tail in 75/83 and 76 mottle.

 

[Njaco]

I'm not going through 70 pages to see if this has been posted....

 

[Wayne Little]

An A-1 from JG26...without going to the books to confirm..

 

[Lucky13]

I'm not going through 70 pages to see if this has been posted....

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...and why is that then??

An A-1 from JG26...without going to the books to confirm..

I'd look cool like that as well, if I owned a similar bird, parked among Cessnas' and others on a private airfield!