Making A-26's at the Tulsa Bomber Plant ...

[quemerford]

I hope you don't mind me adding a bit more detail (it's "McClellan" (two c's) by the way )

• A-26C 43-22616 for Project Dom-797D (Projects 92928-N, Dom-799C and Dom-799B cancelled)
• available 27Jan44 (record card says '1944' - is this 1945?)
• accepted 29Jan44 for GLUE (9th AF) via Hunter AAF and Morrison Field
• delayed (mechanical trouble) 30Jan44; departed Tulsa 31Jan44; arrived Hunter AAF 31Jan44
•

Not at all! I was in a hurry so I was just trying to summarize the IARC (and throw in some typos for good measure ).

I'm not as familiar with WW2 IARC's as with those from the '50s. But yes you're right - sometimes it pays to know what you're expecting before you start deciphering these!

[tulsaboy]

Neat pictures!
InvaderHF, what is the source of your photos? Did you find a stack somewhere, or scan some from a government archive? Douglas-Tulsa photographs from WWII are very hard to come by, compared to photos from several of the other major plants from that era. I have been far more interested in the B-24 production at DT than the A-26 production, but love anything DT.
Keep up the good work!
kevin

[InvaderHF]

I hope you don't mind me adding a bit more detail (it's "McClellan" (two c's) by the way )

• A-26C 43-22616 for Project Dom-797D (Projects 92928-N, Dom-799C and Dom-799B cancelled)
• available 27Jan44 (record card says '1944' - is this 1945?)
• accepted 29Jan44 for GLUE (9th AF) via Hunter AAF and Morrison Field
• delayed (mechanical trouble) 30Jan44; departed Tulsa 31Jan44; arrived Hunter AAF 31Jan44
•

Not at all! I was in a hurry so I was just trying to summarize the IARC (and throw in some typos for good measure ).

I'm not as familiar with WW2 IARC's as with those from the '50s. But yes you're right - sometimes it pays to know what you're expecting before you start deciphering these!

Its the opposite for me. Im great with the WWII cards, and okay with the 1960s reports, but the 1950s cards are a pain for me.

Check out my page here; I have documented some basics on how to read the different formats of the cards. Its still a work in progress.
https://claybornglobal.com/IHF/index.ph ... tory_Cards

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[InvaderHF]

Neat pictures!
InvaderHF, what is the source of your photos? Did you find a stack somewhere, or scan some from a government archive? Douglas-Tulsa photographs from WWII are very hard to come by, compared to photos from several of the other major plants from that era. I have been far more interested in the B-24 production at DT than the A-26 production, but love anything DT.
Keep up the good work!
kevin

The photos were originally part of the Douglas Archives. A former employee had a copy of them and gave them to a friend who eventually sold them on ebay. I saw them and immediately reached out to try to purchase the collection so that I could scan them in and share them with everyone. I managed to talk him down to $500 for the set (they're all 8x10s) and got a few donors to help cover it.

I routinely scour auction sites for anything Invader related and buy up as much as I can to include in my online museu.
There's a set of poems I bought last year from a Navigator in Vietnam. Ive got more than 12,000 photos that Im working on uploading as well as tens of thousands of pages of documents and all of the official schematics. I may need fo find a new web host though, my current one limits how many pictures I can store.