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Aircraft history for serial number: 42-95867 (kindly provided by Paul Clouting). |
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Built at the Glenn L Martin factory at Baltimore, Maryland as a B-26B-50-MA. Accepted by the Army Air Force on 17/11/43. Next listed at Morris Field, Charlotte, North Carolina (ATC) from 15/12/43. Then went to the 3rd AF staging area at Hunter Field, Savannah, Georgia (from 16/12/43). Flown overseas to the UK via the Southern Ferry Route (Listed as Carribean Wing), departing the USA on 25/12/43. The aircraft record card then lists, SOXO A (Europe - 8th AF) on 23/12/43, and SOXO R (Europe - 8th AF) from 30/1/44. Entered service with the 1st Pathfinder Squadron from 27/3/44, and coded IH-F. Damaged on 5/1/45 after flying 63 missions, and sent to the service squadron for repairs. Returned to the squadron on 9/3/45 and was recoded IH-A1. Flew another 10 missions and survived the war. The aircraft had sharks mouth artwork applied on the nose, but had no nose name. Photographed at Y-29, Asche in April 1945. Condemned for salvage on 15/10/45. The final entry on the aircraft record card lists, GLUE CON SAL FEA on 15/10/45. |
Came with the kit Greg.Where did you find the lonestar decals? That was the biggest thing holding up my conversion. That and a giant heap of inertia.
Much more better
And here is one with a bit of color correction...
Yeah I started deferring to Greg before I decided on this build. Subject experts are nice to have around.Always good to have Greg in your corner with regards to the B-26. I was going to ask if you needed anything but I will defer this to him
Understand. Just finished Midway Bravery about Jim Muri in particular as the author, a fellow Montana native, wrote about him and to some extent the crews of the other four torpedo armed bombers at Midway. Also reading B-26 Goes to War which I have in digital (Kindle) format. The B-26-MA conversion (well really covers all short wing types) is supposed to come with the torpedo but mine was missing it. I'm looking to do this pretty much as intended out of the box as a late model C-45-MO. Get the feel for the kit before I hack it to shreds in another build. Already noted that it's going to take about 100 grams of weight inthe radio compartment to bring the nose down.I am not an expert. I'm just a bit monomaniacal. I have barely scratched the surface of all things Marauder. My focus is pretty narrow, chiefly pursuing the exploits of the early Marauders that fought the Japanese. My budget does not permit me, (or is it my Big Mac addiction) to acquire all the tomes that I desire to sate my quest for encyclopeadic knowledge of all units that flew this magnificent machine.