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When Hollywood Ruled The Skies - Volumes 1 through 4 by Bruce Oriss


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PostPosted: Sat Oct 28, 2023 10:03 am 
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Is that additional armor protection for the co-pilot on "Classy Chassy", or battle damage repair? If additional protection, can't say I blame them as it looks likes the fuselage has several patches all over.

Yes, that's cockpit armor.

Here's a pic of some over on the pilot's side...along with one of my favorite pieces of nose art.

Noting quite captures the true essence of the brotherhood of fighting men than a crew that names their bomber after the Aircraft Commander's girlfriend (Ann Shackleford...."The Shack") and adorns it with a winged phallus flying toward her posterior.

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One of my favourites too. This photo from the Mark Brown collection was obviously taken not long after the armor was added, temporarily obscuring much – too much - of the female form. The artist was Duane Bryers, a great guy and happily signed an enlargement of this photo for me back in 1981.

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Randy Haskin wrote:
And yet the AF still can't figure out how to trade the Barksdale B-24 to Yankee Air Museum.


Or Historic Wendover Airfield! We have a nice HUGE mostly empty hangar and I seriously doubt we will be getting a B-29 to put in there anytime soon.
Well, truthfully it would be great to get it ANYWHERE out of the weather!

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