Warbird Information Exchange

The B-24 B-29 Sq. of the CAF received the following email. I figured WIX was the best place to go for help. Feel free to email me the photos ( me109me109@aol.com ) or email to him directly and reference his email to the CAF. Thanks in advance.

"My name is Barry Yovkoff. I am Advocate/Penison Officer working in a VETERANS' CENTRE in Melbourne AUSTRALIA,

I writing to you to see if you can help me by Emailing me a number of photos of the RADIO OPERATORS' POSITION in the B-24 LIBERATOR.

This is for a WAR WIDOW's claim for a pension.

The photos would help me put a case to our VETERANS' AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT.

Hoping you or the COMMEMORATIVE AIR FORCE B-29/B-24 SQUADRON can help me out, as this matter is going before the Department at the end of September 2009.

Thank you

Yours sincerely,

BARRY YOVKOFF

Email-- byovkoff@bigpond.net.au"

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Taylor Stevenson

With no disrespect whatsoever intended toward CAF as a reference point, the message for help seems really odd to me given location of origin and available resources in the digital age.

The letter writer might want to get in contact with the folks working on the preservation of Australia's B-24 M in Werribee as they have an extensive repository of archival photos, technical manuals and an airplane under restoration for a first-hand perspective. Great bunch of people down there, too. Needless to say, the "advocate" already has this information in his own back yard, and a little time on an internet search engine provides more than a few wartime shots of the varied radio stations in the type. Makes me suspect something ain't what it's reported to be.