Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum - Savannah, GA

warbird1 · **Joined:** Fri Sep 21, 2007 6:25 pm **Posts:** 2760

RMAllnutt wrote:

warbird1 wrote:

JDK wrote:

Thanks for the photos.

bax101 wrote:

And its amazing to see that ME-163B-1a Komet and how it looks like it was taken straight from the battlefield and not restored.

It looks to me that the Komet has its original German paint - camouflage and markings, plus remnants of the Foreign Evaluation 'FE' tail number applied by the USAAF. It's heavilly worn, probably in preservation rather than in service, but that's a real time capsule. Looks like it's got (at least part of) it's engine.

Does anyone know the history of this Komet? I seem to vaguely remember that this airplane might have come from a complex airplane trade to a Canadian museum.

This aircraft has been in the NASM collection since 1954. A reasonable potted history can be found below.

Cheers,
Richard

http://www.nasm.si.edu/research/aero/aircraft/me163.htm

Thanks for the clarification, Richard. Which airplane am I thinking of? I remember there being 2 Komets in the same museum in Canada and one of them being traded elsewhere?

DaveM2 · **Posted:** Tue Feb 12, 2008 4:55 pm

Two Me163s were held by the Canadian National Museum and one was traded in a complex exchange that saw the Komet go to the NMUSAF and the 109F (ex Guy Black and Russia) go to Canada.

Dave

drgondog · **Joined:** Mon Nov 21, 2005 10:50 am **Posts:** 237

The stained glass is recent. The one John Dobberting did for 355th and donated to Littleton Church (Anglican) near Steeple Mordem is simply awesome. I don't know who did this one of the 355th at Savannah but I can find out

Bill

P51Mstg · **Joined:** Tue Jan 25, 2005 11:36 am **Posts:** 1202

Here are a few pics I shot in January 2007. I got carried away here, but there was really a lot of good stuff in there.........

Mark H

mustangdriver · **Posted:** Tue Feb 12, 2008 9:40 pm

Nice pics man.

B17news · **Posted:** Tue Feb 12, 2008 10:07 pm

here are some shots I took:

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This painting was AWESOME

mustangdriver · **Posted:** Tue Feb 12, 2008 11:38 pm

Is it me, or would this make a nice place for the NMUSAF to relocate the Tulare B-17 to?

JDK · **Posted:** Wed Feb 13, 2008 1:49 am

drgondog wrote:

The stained glass is recent. The one John Dobberting did for 355th and donated to Littleton Church (Anglican) near Steeple Mordem is simply awesome. I don't know who did this one of the 355th at Savannah but I can find out

Hi Bill,
I realise that of course I'm not familiar with the type of glass you mention, which makes my earlier post a bit irrelevant - hardly a first, though.

Can you elabourate on the glass in the Ltttleton Church? (It would be Steeple Morden, BTW.)
Cheers

drgondog · **Joined:** Mon Nov 21, 2005 10:50 am **Posts:** 237

Banndit - I noticed that you happened to take a picture of the Aces roll and spotted my father Bert Marshall right in the middle of your pic?

The 355th Memorial at Savannah is nice but pales in comparison to the one at Steeple Morden - which has a real 51 Prop and large marble pantheon. Thanks to our pepetual fund and the great help from our firends in the UK, that Memorial will be maintained as long as there is a banking system in UK.

We are considering doing the same thing at Davis Monthan to incorporate all of the 355th (Viet Nam, Afghanistan Iraqi Freedom and beyond) at the home base and we will vote on that this April. I'm currently working on the Roll of Honor list for all the fallen and/or captured/MIA for all 355FG,TFW and FW

JDK - I (think) have shots of the Steeple Morden and Dobertin Glass - If you PM you email I will send to you. I have problems uploading to this site - so you can post if you wish.

John Dobertin is a true artist in the old school of lead and stained glass and the one he crafted and donated to the church is immense - on the scale (and quality) of the Rennaisance renditions.

Regards,

Chicoartist · **Posted:** Wed Feb 13, 2008 12:46 pm

. . . and if you get REALLY bored, go into the museum's art gallery right now!

Wade

B17news · **Posted:** Wed Feb 13, 2008 8:54 pm

drgondog wrote:

Banndit - I noticed that you happened to take a picture of the Aces roll and spotted my father Bert Marshall right in the middle of your pic?

I was taking pics for my father in law at the time. He flew with Pisanos in the past, and he had met (and drooled over) Ann Baumgartner before, so that's why those shots were in there.

B

B17news · **Posted:** Wed Feb 13, 2008 8:55 pm

Chicoartist wrote:

. . . and if you get REALLY bored, go into the museum's art gallery right now!

Wade

Wade's art is prominently displayed in the gift shop, its excellent!

B

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