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Dated 4-25-41, location unknown. Official US Army Air Corps photograph.

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they look like couch potatos!!! anybody got anything positive to the type on the bolos that possibly contributed to the ending of the early dark days of the war effort??

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tom d. friedman wrote:
they look like couch potatos!!! anybody got anything positive to the type on the bolos that possibly contributed to the ending of the early dark days of the war effort??


Well, many B-18s conducted sea patrol duties with the 6th AF in Panama, the Caribbean and Central America...


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The AAc got that entire lineup of BOLOS for the price of three B-17's?

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One was credited with sinking a German U-Boat.
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The Inspector wrote:
The AAc got that entire lineup of BOLOS for the price of three B-17's?


Sounds like the F-22 argument.
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How many beer cans can we make with these?!? :hide:
Sorry, beer cans were made of steel back then! But tasted better from bottles!

Aircrews had to train multi-engine in something! My question would be, how did they compare to more frontline A/C like the B-25, B-26, B-17 and such as a training tool.
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Friends,

The field is Barksdale, LA as from this LIFE series on the bombardier school that was there between December 1940 and February 1942. The school later move to Kirtland AAF, NM.

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I think that they are sweet. Cool looking aircraft. I'm glad that the NMUSAF got theirs on display. Now I can't wait for them to get the B-23 on display.

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One was credited with sinking a German U-Boat.
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One U-Boat was credited with shooting down a B-18, if I remember correctly.

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The Baugher site has this combat loss:

"(36-)338 (19th BG) shot down by fighters off Java Feb 2, 1942. 6 crew KIA."

That's the only one listed as being shot down in the Pacific although it doesn't state the nature of the mission (bombing? recon? transport?).

As an aside, the 1938 War of the Worlds radio broadcast includes a scene where a flight of Army bombers attack the Martians and get their engines knocked out by the Martian heat ray. They manage to destroy one Martian machine by crashing into it "Bombs and all!" - I always imagined they would have been B-18s...

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Speaking of B-18's...Somebody help this guy out, he's got a Bolo in his backyard and isn't sure of what to do with it..
www.aviastar.org/air/usa/douglas_bolo.php

"Chris Rathbun, ypochris(at)yahoo.com, 15.09.2007
We have a B18 Bolo, serial #36-446, of the 11th Bombardment Group which crashed due to engine failure February 25, 1941, sitting in a gulch on our property in Hawai'i. We are trying to decide what to do with this plane. I would be happy to hear any input or comments, and better, any information anyone has on this particular plane. Even more valuable would be information on the location of parts taken off the plane, as restoration is a probability."

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Did anybody else notice that the Same Bomber is in Both Bictures :shock: take a look ......................237 pretty cool ! Keep em coming please !

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Did anybody else notice that the Same Bomber is in Both Bictures :shock: take a look ......................237 pretty cool ! Keep em coming please !

I thought that was part of the point of Res6kgcr's post?

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Nice lineup...
Interesting aircraft...
Pretty aircraft?... not so much... but very interesting.
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