[303rd-Talk] War wery planes

[jprencher at aol.com]

After I came home from the 303rd I was assigned to the 
ferry devision of the ATC. We dedslivered airplanes to where ever they were suppoosed to go. Some old. Some new. If a bird was going to the salvage yard. They would  do the very minimum maintiance on it to get it there. Most of those were not really fit to fly.  We called those birds "War Reary" Even if they were just worn out piles of junk and maybe had never been in the war. If we could get them in the air off we went to the salvage yard with them and they were cut up for scrap aluninum and  and what ever else thy could salvage.   Kingman Arizona was one of the Salvage yards as I best remember.
Jack Rencher


-----Original Message-----
From: harold susskind <hasusskind at hotmail.com>
To: 303rd-talk at 303rdbg.com
Sent: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 3:43 pm
Subject: RE: [303rd-Talk] War wery planes




ou all:
hat is a war weary plane?  I don't ever remember flying a war weary plane in 
ombat. I don't ever remember having a aircraft doctor, who classified an 
ircraft as war weary. That was an expression used to describe an aircraft that 
lew close air support for the troops.  They were usually two engine aircraft as 
 A-26 that were being flown to the States for future missions whatever they may 
e. I was lucky.  I crashed in one of those in Dakar, Africa.  The aircraft was 
etter than the Pilot.  Hal Susskind
 
 Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 07:36:53 -0800
 From: bill
runnels at yahoo.com
 Subject: Re: [303rd-Talk] War wery planes
 To: 303rd-talk at 303rdBG.com
 
 Anita:
  
 What colors are used on the bunkhouse door?  The colors could also indicate 
he 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 
isted
 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
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > 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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