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Post by Dave Homewood on Dec 28, 2017 10:57:17 GMT 12
Check out this pretty poor photo of six RAF Venturas in formation. Some of them have artworks applied, and the closest to the camera has the Donald Duck in an egg artwork that was also seen on the No. 75 Squadron Wellington and Lancaster 'Thomas Frederick Duck'. I have also seen that same cartoon on an RAF Liberator in Burma. I cannot work out who these aircraft belonged to, HY was the codes for No. 88 Squadron RAF but as far as I know they went straight from Blenheims to Bostons and never operated the Ventura? I can't find any oher unit that used HY codes. ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE12049796&dps_custom_att_1=emu
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Post by davidd on Dec 28, 2017 11:13:58 GMT 12
Just checked Dave, photo is printed in reverse, code is YH (21 Sqdn RAF, first squadron to operate the original Ventura model in RAF), noticed the individual letter code of foreground aircraft (as repeated on nose) was back-to-front, so realized what the problem was! David D
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Post by Dave Homewood on Dec 30, 2017 14:52:28 GMT 12
Aha, thanks David, that solves it. It's very interesting to see that duck cartoon once again, I wonder where it originally came from, a magazine perhaps?
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