B-24 Flying Billboards

[Mike Bates]

Mike

[gary1954]

Sad, very very sad to see these worriors go to scrap

[Steve Nelson]

"Bread Line" appears to be the victim of a belly-landing that was being "parted out" in theatre to keep other Libs flying. In the combat zone, any aircraft damaged beyond economical repair was usually picked clean of usable parts pretty quickly.

SN

[Django]

Anyone know the story on the art/name for Breadline in '49?

[Django]

Bttt. Anyone know anything more on Breadline in '49?

check this out.

[mustangdriver]

Wow!! Now that is a wild scheme.

[JimH]

Mabel was Sgt. Sarkis' wife...his daughter stopped out in Lincoln RI and shared an amazing photo album of is work. I think I posted here on another thread about him but it is worth noting that most of his letters home were illustrated rather than written. He was quite the artist an is really an unknown legend of the Pacific theater.

Jim

[mustangdriver]

Mabel was Sgt. Sarkis' wife...his daughter stopped out in Lincoln RI and shared an amazing photo album of is work. I think I posted here on another thread about him but it is worth noting that most of his letters home were illustrated rather than written. He was quite the artist an is really an unknown legend of the Pacific theater.

Jim

That's awesome. You always hear of a few of the guys that did nose art in the ETO, but not much from the PTO. The B-24 sure does lend itself to big nose art.

[Second Air Force]

Chad,

I'd assume that "Breadline In '49" refers to the fact that someone thought the war would last that long and then they'd all be out of a job?

That tiger-snouted B-24D is one ugly brute with the Oklahoma City turret mod on it. I got to visit with a bombardier that crewed one of the OKC airplanes and he said they were much roomier than the factory turreted airplanes. They definitely have a deeper bombardier station than the later ones.

Scott

[The Inspector]

The one I always admired was the B-24 that had four 'shadow' outlines of itself painted on the fuselage, tail, and engines and , I assume the wings, how'd you like to make a pass on that one @ 400 MPH in a dive?

[Michel C-GNCJ]

I think a leaflet distributed to visitors would do just the same. And not mess up the look of an otherwise fine aircraft...

My two cents...

[Dan K]

I think a leaflet distributed to visitors would do just the same. And not mess up the look of an otherwise fine aircraft...

My two cents...

Call me naive, Michel, but I think 3" lettering on the aircraft might generate more $$ than size 9 font in a leaflet.

If, however, those leaflets were dropped in bundles out of the bomb bay during a flyover...

[tom d. friedman]

great post!! alot of nose art i've never seen. just curious........ alot of that nose art is mega mural sized, i wonder how much weight / drag was put on many of those birds with the paint??? toward the end of the war it was determined that camo / paint affected fuel efficiency, thus many flew bare metal.

[mazdaP5]

I'm willing to bet that even though their names are all over the plane, those people would rather the plane look accurate than like a highschool yearbook.

[Django]

Mabel was Sgt. Sarkis' wife...his daughter stopped out in Lincoln RI and shared an amazing photo album of is work. I think I posted here on another thread about him but it is worth noting that most of his letters home were illustrated rather than written. He was quite the artist an is really an unknown legend of the Pacific theater.

Jim

Jim, I searched "Sarkis" and this thread is the only occurence in all of WIXland. Did you take any pics? Any more stories?