Steve Searle's new Lockheed twins

[JDK]

JDK, thanks but have been in touch with them already its gone, your commit just a shed to put over it, I don,t understand what you ment, we have a 14000 sq ft hanger and other large display biuldings.

I thought it had, sorry.

I understand you've recently expanded your museum? When I was there in 2002, the Hudson hulk was stored outside in the bondooks. (And your website link isn't working - dunno why.)

As to Hudson re-construction, the Kiwis might be worth talking to as they have someone rebuilding a Boulton Paul turret, the RNZAF Museum rebuilt their magnificent Hudson from chicken-shed level of decay, and MOTAT, IIRC are undergoing a similar job. Sadly Malcolm Long who rebuilt a couple of Hudsons here in Aus, including the flyer is no longer with us.

Cheers,

[helinut]

Oh sorry the Hudson is still where it was, but didn,t you see the large biulding with the canso in it. The site was up a few days ago, we been having problems with it.

[SaxMan]

5 February 1942 A B-25 Bomber on patrol duty 100 miles off the Atlantic Coast, became the first U.S.Army airplane to sink a Nazi Submarine. The Army, in commending the bomber crew said that their "striking success" symbolized "what the Air Corps has been doing."

IIRC, didn't the pilot of the plane report "Sighted Sub, sank same"? That apparently became a famous phrase in the early part of the war. That would have been a 2nd BG bird? (Or was it 20th?)

[gary1954]

U-85 was sunk by the destroyer USS SS Roper in a night surface action off the coast of North Carolina on April 14, 1942

The boat was attacked by a VP-84 PBO-1 Hudson flown by AMM1c Donald L. Mason on 28 January 1942 - Mason's first report to his base in Argentia Newfoundland was "Sighted sub sank same"

http://www.uboatarchive.net/U-85VP-82Report.htm

http://www.uboatarchive.net/U-85.htm