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When Hollywood Ruled The Skies - Volumes 1 through 4 by Bruce Oriss


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PostPosted: Fri Jul 10, 2020 8:57 pm 
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Here's a few more War Bond Drive and Post-War aircraft displays.

Can you post a pic of the locations as they look today? :wink:

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Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star with German Rocket.

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Stateside B-26 on War bond display.

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1943 War Bond Drive Oakland tanks jeeps trucks, P-39.

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 10, 2020 9:21 pm 
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The top photo is across from the Neil House hotel in Columbus, Ohio.
wonder what the biplane is to the right of the P-80 in the photo?
Not a Stearman (square-ish wingtips and four ailerons) a N3N?

Neither type has a Columbus connection...but it is close to Wright Field and Freeman Field (where the V-2 may have come from).

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2nd photo also from Columbus


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The first image is the Capitol Square in front of the Ohio Capitol building.

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Mark Allen M wrote:
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Stateside B-26 (ed. note: 40-1369) on War Bond display.


War Memorial, 101 N. Gay Street, Baltimore, MD:
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Per the book Maryland Aviation by John R. Breihan:
John R. Breihan wrote:
On the cover:"Old Number 9" was the ninth of 5,266 Marauder medium bombers built by the Glenn L. Martin Aircraft Company of Middle River. This particular Marauder flew combat missions in the Aleutians early in World War II. In late May, 1943 it returned to Maryland and was placed on display in downtown Baltimore between the War Memorial (pictured) and Baltimore City Hall. (Glenn L. Martin Maryland Aviation Museum, Middle River)


Somewhere between the Aleutians and Baltimore it picked up a training base code; now to figure out where...

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Well, apparently it came from MacDill Field. "1102" or "1103" looks like one of those four-digit codes that has nothing to do with the serial (more MacDill B-26 buzz numbers here, https://387bg.com/Stations/MacDill/MacDill%20Field.htm scroll halfway down). From the Baltimore Sun:

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Its sister ship, 40-1372, visited as well:
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