[303rd-Talk] War wery planes

bill runnels billrunnels at yahoo.com
Mon Jan 26 08:36:53 MST 2009


Anita:
 
What colors are used on the bunkhouse door?  The colors could also indicate the type of bombs carried on each mission.
 
Bill Runnels
Bombardier (B-17)

--- On Sun, 1/25/09, Anita Nardine <asnh at earthlink.net> wrote:

From: Anita Nardine <asnh at earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [303rd-Talk] War wery planes
To: "303rd Bomb Group Talk Forum" <303rd-talk at 303rdBG.com>
Date: Sunday, January 25, 2009, 10:47 PM

I have a photo of the bunkhouse door, which has differently colored bombs listed
for each plane crew in the bunkhouse. I've often wondered the same thing.

Howard Nardine's daughter,
Anita Nardine

Gary Moncur wrote:

> I have heard that the different colored bombs on "Memphis Belle"
indicated it's Lead Crew missions.  I haven't look closely at Hell's
Angels missions to confirm if it is the same.
> Gary
> 
> *Gary L. Moncur*
> 303rd Bomb Group (H) Historian
> www.303rdBG.com
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> 
> 
> Redshogparts at aol.com wrote:
> 
>> Looking closely at the nose art on The Hells Angels B-17 the number of
25  missions depicted in bombs on the nose. Some are in different colours. Do
these  depict different types of missions or bombs carried?
>>  Would love to know?
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