Recent content by Don Boose

Thanks for the feedback and friendly reception, Snautzer01. Lucky 13 - I can see why your Dad liked the Skyraider, and also why he liked the beautiful Monon F3A! A few years ago I came into possession of a recording made by a USAF pilot who was advisor to the 23 TW. He made it for his wife...

The Republic of Vietnam Air Force (RVNAF) A-1H with the yellow and black checkerboard fuselage bands in the King Kit is an aircraft of the RVNAF 23rd Tactical Wing (514th and 515th Fighter Squadrons), which was based at Bien Hoa air base in the 1960s during the Vietnam War. This outfit was well...

BT-13s were also converted to look like Aichi D3A carrier bombers (Kanbaku), Allied code name Val, for the film Tora! Tora! Tora! One of the Tora! Kanbaku birds was located at the Carlisle, Pennsylvania, airport in the 1990s. I was there when new owners (a man and a red haired woman, both...

I initially thought that the question concerned "enlisted" (not commissioned officer) fighter pilots, but it seems from the answers that the question was interpreted as how many USAAF pilots served as fighter pilots, with "enlisted" meaning "served." Based on my interpretation of the question...

Many thanks for this additional information, Ewen. Is there any information on whether in cases of repainting fabric-covered aircraft like the Wellington, the previous dope or paint was removed, or just oversprayed? Don

David - Thank you very much for sharing this first hand primary source information based on your Dad's recollections and his log book. It is further evidence that some Wellingtons were operating in North Africa in green/brown/black camouflage into 1942 and, as you say, one of the factors would...

Thanks, fubar. I have that book and find it very useful.

Thanks for the welcome SaparotRob and Snautzer01, and thanks for the recommendation, Snautzer01. I found several reelevant images in that thread, especially one of a No. 70 Squadron Wellington that appears to be in the desert scheme. I am still finding my way here, and appreciate the welcome.

I am looking for information and images of Vickers Wellington aircraft operating in WWII in North Africa, the Middle East, and East Africa in brown and tan (stone) camouflage (Desert Scheme). Based on Michael JF Bowyer, Bombing Colours: RAF bombers, their markings and operations 1937 – 1973...