Douglas B18 Bolo

[sagindragin]

hi gentlemen, finally after all these year i got round to doing the Bolo, now i have a problem, anyone have clear images or drawing of unit badges carried by these aircraft.

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[ALOHADAVE]

B-18 at Hickam Field with winged death's head insignia of the 5th Bombardment Group on its nose

loading leaflets on a Hickam B-18 May 1940, interesting logo on the side

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[Chris Brame]

A couple I found online and stashed in my B-18 folder:

[sagindragin]

cheers guys, they will be fantastic, here is the first Digby done.

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and a few others

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[Randy Wilson]

Do you have access to a copy of "Douglas B-18 Bolo" by William Wolf? Aside from a number of photos, there is also a short discussion of exterior markings on pages 71-75. If you don't have access, drop me a PM and I'll try and help.

Randy

[mike furline]

No unit badges, but an odd bird. Any ideas?

[raconnel]

A few from the LIFE collection. More here: http://images.google.com/hosted/life/33b55f65e3c6e924.html













Richard

[dogsbodymk1]

No unit badges, but an odd bird. Any ideas?

This one:

http://www.worldwarphotos.info/gallery/ ... un-test-3/

http://www.worldwarphotos.info/gallery/ ... un-test-4/

http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthre ... -installed


Chris

[sagindragin]

cheers guys fantastic, and yes i do have the Bolo book, but thank you for the offer. Randy.

[Chris Brame]

Were the Canadian Digbys former USAAC airframes, or were they new builds for the RCAF?

[JohnB]

They were independently bought.
Hagedorn in his recent B-18 book firmly states that they were not Lend Lease (unlike what might be found in other books) and have Douglas MSNs that are earlier than the USAAC aircraft.
That is backed up by the serial list in Francillon's Douglas Aircraft Since 1920 book.