B-24 / B-25 / PBJ (3 Viewers)

[Stas1234]

All that remains is to figure out what is drawn and written on the right side...

 

[Wurger]

These on right are the medal service ribbons similar to those seen on the B-24 earlier. Here below the enlarged shot with these ribbons and medal names I added. The inscription at the top right corner is the same like on the port side. Below these ribbons there are listed awarded soldiers similar to the B-24D.

 

[Wurger]

Having a close up look at the front art with the medals I would say that there is one name below the SILVER STAR . The same for the LEGION OF MERIT. The PURPLE HART has two or three below. The DISTNIGUISHED FLYING CROSS and AIR MEDAL got the 8 names below.

 

[Stas1234]

The names there are illegible, so I did this... I took the names from the B-24 list.

 

[Stas1234]

 

[Stas1234]

This piece of parchment is left. There was one just like it on the B-24. Do you think the contents are the same? Or different?

 

[Wurger]

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Looking good. However it sems tha the entire art should be moved more down. In the enlarged shot above it can be noticed the it didn't start with the bottom of the frame of the glazed nose but lower. Also either there should be one name more for the PH, DFC and AM lists ( 9 names totally ) or the names there should be adjusted in order to be between the bottom edge of the ribbons and the bottom edge of the white rectangular.

 

[Wurger]

This piece of parchment is left. There was one just like it on the B-24. Do you think the contents are the same? Or different?

It is very possible it was different. But nobody can read that though. So ....

 

[Wurger]

 

[Wurger]

Stanislav ... a note though. I have had a close look at the map on the port side. You made it with the grey B-25 silhouette. I have also seen the one of the red. But the black or grey is wrong IMHO. The most fitting tone there is the yellow. But the red is also possible.. Additionally these bombs don't look black. I would say these were of the red. Just my three cents.

 

[Wurger]

The addition to my post above. The image I found via the net was taken with yellow filter IMHO and reveals that the eleven last bombs at the bottom row was of a different colour. At glance it looks like the same one used for the top plane profiles. The tone of the paint suggests the same colour that was used for the see in the map. So it could be the blue or blue-greenish one. In other words the Mediterranean Blue IMHO. The profile of the B-25 in the map now looks red. And it seems to be the correct colour.

the pic source: The "Desert Warrior," a well-adorned B-25 North American "Mitchell" bomber of the U.S. Army 9th Air Force, preparatory to being sent back to the U.S. with its crew after completing some of the historic missions of the war from El Alamein to Sicily Stock Photo - Alamy

 

[Stas1234]

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[Stas1234]

In the evening, I also managed to draw a Soviet B-25 in winter field camouflage.

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[Stas1234]

There's just one thing I didn't quite understand... Were the B-25s supplied under Lend-Lease painted in American Olive Drab or not? And if they were, did the USSR repaint them in Soviet green?

 

[Wurger]

As far as I know the B-25 were delivered in the OD/NG livery generally. Later in the Russia, the camouflage could be either replaced with other colours used by russian maintenance workshops and crew or just was completed with the accessed paints at the field. Hence the white winter camo or camo spots following the VVS rules.

 

[Stas1234]

?... G.S. ???

 

[Jadera]

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?... G.S. ???

what are you modeling?

 

[Stas1234]

Аve maria

I didn't understand what is written at the beginning of the second line.

 

[Wurger]

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?... G.S. ???

Stanislav ... S/SGT G.S THOMSON . It is his military rank abbreviation. In other words he was the Staff Sergeant. Below a better view ...

 

[Stas1234]

And here comes the Ave Maria.

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