T Bolt
Colonel
User Name: T Bolt
Name: Glenn
Category: Advanced
Kit: Minicraft B-24J "Liberator"
Scale: 1/72nd
Accessories: Scratch-built modifications to improve the kit and convert it to A B-24H. Aero Master and Home made decals. True Details wheels. Kristal Klear vacuform canopy, top turret and astro dome
This is another B-24 from one of my father's bomb groups, this time the 484th BG, 15th AF, and this time an aircraft he flew in on his 1st and 3rd combat missions with the 484th.
The 484th Bomb Group Association has a wonderful website with loads of information where I found my father's name on the crew list of the mission documents as photographer in B-24H 41-28935 on Feb 15th and 20th 1944 which were his 1st and 3rd combat missions with the 484th after being transferred from the 490th BG, 8th AF
41-28935 was a B-24H 15 DT, an early "H" from the Douglas plant in Tulsa Oklahoma. It had the name "Hotcha Baby" on the starboard side of the nose along with a picture of the cartoon character "Miss Lace", while on the port side it had the name "Me Worry!!?"
The 484th BG Association's site had a few pictures of Hotcha Baby/ Me Worry!!? which I've included below Including the first one of Dad sitting on a motorcycle (the guy driving) right in front of Hotcha Baby/ Me Worry!!?
Photo Credit: Mike Kokai
Photo Credit: 484th Bombardment Group / USAAF
Photo Credit: 484th Bombardment Group / USAAF
Photo Credit: Mike Kokai
Photo Credit: Mike Kokai
Name: Glenn
Category: Advanced
Kit: Minicraft B-24J "Liberator"
Scale: 1/72nd
Accessories: Scratch-built modifications to improve the kit and convert it to A B-24H. Aero Master and Home made decals. True Details wheels. Kristal Klear vacuform canopy, top turret and astro dome
This is another B-24 from one of my father's bomb groups, this time the 484th BG, 15th AF, and this time an aircraft he flew in on his 1st and 3rd combat missions with the 484th.
The 484th Bomb Group Association has a wonderful website with loads of information where I found my father's name on the crew list of the mission documents as photographer in B-24H 41-28935 on Feb 15th and 20th 1944 which were his 1st and 3rd combat missions with the 484th after being transferred from the 490th BG, 8th AF
41-28935 was a B-24H 15 DT, an early "H" from the Douglas plant in Tulsa Oklahoma. It had the name "Hotcha Baby" on the starboard side of the nose along with a picture of the cartoon character "Miss Lace", while on the port side it had the name "Me Worry!!?"
The 484th BG Association's site had a few pictures of Hotcha Baby/ Me Worry!!? which I've included below Including the first one of Dad sitting on a motorcycle (the guy driving) right in front of Hotcha Baby/ Me Worry!!?
Photo Credit: Mike Kokai
Photo Credit: 484th Bombardment Group / USAAF
Photo Credit: 484th Bombardment Group / USAAF
Photo Credit: Mike Kokai
Photo Credit: Mike Kokai
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