eBay: Martin B-26 Marauder

Snautzer01 · Oct 10, 2019

WWII U.S. 9th Airforce B26 Marauder Mission On D Day Glossy 8x10 Photo | eBay

Wurger · Oct 10, 2019

fubar57 · Oct 10, 2019

Snautzer01 · Oct 14, 2019

Bauer: B-26C-45-MO 42-107674 (322nd BG, 452nd BS, 9th AF) shot down by AAA at Pracht, Germany Mar 24, 1945. MACR 13323. One crewman killed, 5 bailed out and became POW.
Starting from A-61 Beauvais/Tille, France

Org. Photo: Aerial View 322nd BG B-26 Bombers (#42-107674; Shot Down 1945)!!! | eBay

Snautzer01 · Oct 14, 2019

Bauer: Martin B-26G-10-MA 43-34428 (322nd BG, 451st BS) shot down by AAA Feb 10, 1945.

Starting from A-61 Beauvais/Tille, France

Org. Photo: Aerial View 322nd BG B-26 Bombers (#43-34428; Shot Down 1945)!!! | eBay

Wurger · Oct 14, 2019

Snautzer01 · Oct 20, 2019

Orig. US Foto B-26 Marauder Flugzeug am Flugplatz JARNY b. Metz Frankreich 1944 | eBay

Gnomey · Oct 21, 2019

Nice shots!

johnbr · Oct 26, 2019

factory modified experimental ground attack version with 2 x 37mm cannon and 2 x .50 cal machine guns in nose, waist guns supposedly moved higher, also reportedly had 4 x .50MG in wings. Engines said to have had small scoops and extended nacelles, horn-balanced rudder.

Martin B-26 Marauder, possibly B-26B-.jpg

johnbr · Oct 26, 2019

same site
Martin B-26B-25-MA Marauder 41-31773 c/n 3487 'Flak Bait'
322nd BG, 449th BS, survived 207 ops over Europe, at air base Kitzingen Germany 1946.
NASM 80-1243

Wurger · Oct 29, 2019

Greg Boeser · Oct 29, 2019

johnbr said:
factory modified experimental ground attack version with 2 x 37mm cannon and 2 x .50 cal machine guns in nose, waist guns supposedly moved higher, also reportedly had 4 x .50MG in wings. Engines said to have had small scoops and extended nacelles, horn-balanced rudder.
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Ring and bead gunsights don't often appear on operational aircraft. Though some early manuals describe how to use the torpedo aimer as a gunsight, and later ones show a reflector sight mounted in the cockpit.

johnbr · Nov 1, 2019

Assigned to 449BS, 322BG, 9AF USAAF. During the course of its service life of 207 missions, with bombing runs over France, Belgium, Netherlands and Germany, it was perforated with over 1000 holes, twice returned with only one engine operating, once with an engine on fire and twice with the complete loss of its electrical and hydraulic systems. Having survived the war in Europe, Flak Bait was selected to be returned to the US. On 18-Mar-46, Major John Egan and Captain Norman Schloesser flew Flak-Bait one last time, to an air depot at Oberpfaffenhofen in Bavaria to be broken down to component parts and shipped in crates back home. Currently being restored at the Steven F.
First of three assigned crews of the Martin B-26 "Flak Bait" posed on top of the aircraft; pilot LT James J. Farrell is in the center; June 1944. Note mechanics in foreground. photographer Unknown
Crew no-1

johnbr · Nov 1, 2019

View of crew members from the 449th Bombardment Squadron, 322nd Bombardment Group posed in front of Martin (Glenn L.) B-26B Marauder (Model 179B) "Flak Bait," circa 1943-1945. Standing, left to right, are Sherman V. Best, Jr., Henry "Hank" Bozarth, and Tom Gee. Kneeling, left to right, are W.J. "Bill" Johnston, McDonald Darnell, Jr., and Russell Bassler. Lt. James Farrell (front row, kneeling) and his crew pose on Flak-Bait shortly before the Normandy Invasion.
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