Reference Thread - 352nd FG ("The Blue Nose Bastards of Bodney")

[B-17engineer]

Thanks..ways to busy as of late to update

 

[Airframes]

That's a bargain even for 1950's prices! Note though, it wasn't the actual 'Petie 2nd', but a former 12th Air Force machine, painted to represent 'Petie'.

 

[drgondog]

Neat stuff.

Hard to imagine getting a Mustang for $755!

We (dad) got one for $3K in 1959 including a spare 1650-7 zero time engine.. inflation..

 

[bobbysocks]

there are some combat reports here from the 352nd

Mustang Encounter Reports

 

[baldpuki]

Here is one of my father. He was a BlueNoser. Alden Rigby. Sorry about the size...haven't figured it out yet.

 

[Pong]

Use Photoshop or the more simple MS Paint to resize the photo. (In MS Paint it is Stretch and Skew)

Great photo BTW!

Not necessarily photos, but Troy White (My favorite aviation artist) painted a lot of the Bluenosers birds on his website.

Bluenosers

Awesome paintings no doubt about it.

EDIT:

Here are a couple of Bluenoser shots I just found.

Photos are from Littlefriends gallery of the 352nd FG and the sources of the photos are cited there.

And photos of George Preddy's Cripes a' Mighty.

Here is an interesting one, 487th bird with Shark Mouth noseart flown by Major John Bennett.

Personally I like the closeup on Preddy's Cripes a' Mighty. Awesome photo.

-Arlo

 

[baldpuki]

It is great to see more pics of my father's plane. It is the one with "Eleen Jerry" on the side. He looks pretty jaunty standing on that wing, huh?

 

[Erich]

hey baldp welcome aboard it was a pleasure to interview your Father by letter a couple years ago. am a friend of the 352nd fg by the way.

Pong just so we do not break copyright laws please cite your source(s) for the photos.

 

[Pong]

Done Erich. The source of the photos are from the Littlefriends website (As I inserted the link above). Also, sorry about that.

 

[MikeGazdik]

Im not sure if it is just the photograph, but the one P-51B/C that has the invasion stripes . It looks like the plane is olive drab and has the blue nose? Tail # 36707 ? Two photographs above the one with the sharkmouth.

 

[MikeGazdik]

I went to the website linked. Indeed, blue nosers with olive drab paint. Love it !

 

[Pong]

One aircraft from the 486th (A/C was Hell-er Bust) had the same paintscheme of Olive Drab with the blue nose.

 

[B-17engineer]

Capt. Sanford K Moats, 487th Fighter Squadron. P-51D 44-14848 HO-K "Kay II".

The reason I was taking all the pilots and pictures of their planes was to keep them organized

 

[B-17engineer]

F/O Charles E Cole. 487th Fighter Squadron. P-51D 44-11330 HO-J "Joanie"

 

[Airframes]

Great pics and nice work H. Keep it up !

 

[B-17engineer]

Thanks Terry!

Sources were posted by Aaron earlier which I thank you a bunch!

 

[B-17engineer]

Lt. Eugene W James. 328th Fighter Squadron. P-51D 44-14207 PE-E"Rose Marie" (L) "The Kelly Kid 2" (R).

 

[B-17engineer]

Im not sure if it is just the photograph, but the one P-51B/C that has the invasion stripes . It looks like the plane is olive drab and has the blue nose? Tail # 36707 ? Two photographs above the one with the sharkmouth.

Your correct. Some of the earlier planes were painted OD

Lt. Francis J McCarthy. 328th Fighter Squadron. P-51D 44-63179 PE-B "Chub A Luk".

His crew was L-R SGT. Kiltie and S/SGT. Arthur C Snyder

 

[Wayne Little]

8)

 

[Lucky13]

Outstanding work H!