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B-17G Picture for Hang
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2015 1:21 pm
by DryMartini
Hang shared this picture of his dad's bird, which he had just received.
Pretty cool!
Wish I could make out the data block. Any info on it, Tom?
Re: B-17G Picture for Hang
Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2015 4:55 am
by hang the expense
Correction! That's a friend of mine whose dad was a waist gunner on this 15AF bird. Just wondering if anyone has any details on it.Thanks for posting the pic Bill.
Re: B-17G Picture for Hang
Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2015 4:56 pm
by Steve Birdsall
That's 42-102830 from the 2nd Bomb Group . . . tail gunner Charles F. Hollenberg painted the nose art.
Re: B-17G Picture for Hang
Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2015 5:30 pm
by aerovin2
Count on Steve to come up with the answer.
Re: B-17G Picture for Hang
Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2015 5:40 pm
by Steve Birdsall
Thanks Scott, but just lucky really. That's a photo I've always liked but never got to use until now.
Re: B-17G Picture for Hang
Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2015 7:59 pm
by 384thBG
Great pic!
Unrelated, but the nose art name reminds me of a story that 384th BG pilot Charles Allyn Lewis told me about the time one of their bombs got hung up on a bomb run (late war), so one of the crew stepped into the bomb bay to kick it loose after they left the formation and dropped to a lower altitude. The air swirling around the open bomb bay lifted the now-liquid pee out of a tin pot that the forward crew used to relive themselves and created a "yellow" cloud, giving the crewman a distinctive aroma and making him doubly mad! O h the humanity!
Re: B-17G Picture for Hang
Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2015 10:39 pm
by hang the expense
Thanks Very Much Steve,I will pass this on to my friend.He should get a kick out of it for sure.Thanks much,Tom
