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Wayne Little · Jan 2, 2013

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 · Jan 2, 2013

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 · Jan 3, 2013

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 · Jan 3, 2013

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 · Jan 3, 2013

Lucky13 · Jan 3, 2013

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 · Jan 4, 2013

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

Lucky13 · Jan 5, 2013

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 · Jan 5, 2013

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

Wurger · Jan 5, 2013

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 · Jan 5, 2013

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

Wurger · Jan 5, 2013

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 · Jan 5, 2013

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 · Jan 5, 2013

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

Lucky13 · Jan 5, 2013

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

Wurger · Jan 5, 2013

Or so, as memo serves.

Wayne Little · Jan 6, 2013

Lucky13 said:
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 · Jan 9, 2013

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

Wayne Little · Jan 10, 2013

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

Lucky13 · Jan 11, 2013

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

View attachment 221197

...and why is that then??

Wayne Little said:
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!

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