eBay: Martin B-26 Marauder

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B-26C-15-MO 41-34959 Clark's Little Pill from the 451st Bomb Squadron, 322nd Bomb Group.

 
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B-26B-25-MA 41-31822 322BG 449BS Nye's Annihilators Code: PN-D
B-26B-40-MA 42-43297 320BG 441BS Lady Eve III shot down by AAA Aug 13, 1944. MACR 7303
B-26B-40-MA 42-43279 320BG 442BS The Old Warrior

 
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Came across an interesting photo on tumblr, with a caption claiming it was a USN B-26. A quick search of the visible portions of the serial visible in the photo made it either a B-26G-20 or B-26G-25. A bit more digging and I found a crash report on AviationSafety.net that seemed to match: 44-68105, crashed into Vakayri mountain, 5 fatalities.

An entry on Sixtant.net seemed to agree:
68105 (Air Transport Command) crashed in Belem, Brazil Jan 25, 1945 while on ferry flight from Atkinson Field, British Guiana to Val de Cans airfield, Belem, Brazil. All 5 crew killed.

Some more digging and as it turns out this is a recent news story from my home country that I had missed:
Exército encontra avião americano que caiu na Amazônia na Segunda Guerra Mundial; veja imagens
No information on the crew, wreck was discovered February 7th, 2022. Interesting to see a wrecked B-26 in Brazil, we never used them ourselves (though we did use the A-26 and refer to that as a B-26), they only ever came here as part of the Southern Route to cross the Atlantic.
The first photo is the one I had originally seen, rest are from the news article.



 
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The nose gun position of the B-26 always looked so uncomfortable to me and I'm a runt at 5'6"!

The nose art reminds me of a story in a book about Japanese fighters vs B-29s. It stated that the men would always gather around to "analyze" the nose art of American bombers while the proper Japanese women would stand back fuming at their men. Lol
 
Those soldiers don't look like the type you'd want on your trail..I wonder if the shotgun is for supplementing rations and snakes..
 
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B-26C-25-MO 41-35268 PDI Special condemned salvage from enemy action Mar 28, 1946





















 
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