I am French. I live close to Paris. Your site on B26 Marauder is very interesting and I congratulate you for the sum on information which it contains. You can notice that the French rosette blue-white-red is painted in the place of American star with 5 branches. It is a type G. Its serial number is The French identification number painted in large green letters on the drift is The date of the bombardment is on February 14, On one of the photographs, notice the flying model of B26 built with the memory of my brother missing in -1 photograph from B26 exposed to the Museum from the Air in Le Bourget close to Paris.
Friendships of old of the French Air Force. I am not sure if Bud flew on this mission, but he flew with Robbie on some. There is a pic somewhere of Robbie, and others, by the b Richard was awarded the British Dist. Flying Cross, LT. Gould of St.
Paul, Minn. Richard E. Robinson of IL. Olaf A. Begre of Lichville, N. Rich has Medals and Ribbons. The Col. Both men hold the Amer. Robinson also has a cluster to the award. We are new to this B26 history and will have to tell Robbie that we are looking into his past. Any info or connection would be appreciated, nose art, missions, etc.
Question: What happens to the planes name after a crash? I will have to ask him how many B's he had. Often the crew chose the name, but on occasion it was the crew chief who named it. In most Groups when a B26 was lost or salvaged the artwork and name was lost with the plane. Then when a new B26 was assigned either the original name with either 2nd or II was added, or the new plane was given an entirely new name. One Group stood apart from the others because of the excellent artwork that adorned its Marauders.
This was the th Bomb Group and when they lost an airplane through damage, or they moved onto another B26 they would take the nose art with them since this was normally painted onto detachable panels on the B Regards, Trevor Allen historian b Arthur J.
