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Post by Dave Homewood on Apr 27, 2021 14:13:45 GMT 12
Here's an image just added to the Air Force Museum of New Zealand's FotoWeb page  WhG600-43 Side view of USAAF Liberator at RNZAF Station Whenuapai. LINK HERE |
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Post by Mustang51 on Apr 27, 2021 16:47:01 GMT 12
B.24D? ASV antennae interesting
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Post by nuuumannn on Nov 3, 2021 18:33:47 GMT 12
B.24D? ASV antennae interesting Yup, either USAAF B-24D fitted with ASV search radar, which was definitely a thing, the USAAF forming the Anti-Submarine Command in October 1942 equipped with B-17s, B-24s, B-25s and B-18s, or it's an early US Navy PB4Y-1, which was essentially a B-24D but kitted out with navy specific avionics. Most PB4Y-1s were fitted with Erco nose turrets but the earliest were not. The style of Star hints at early Pacific War, 1942 through to mid-1943 as the bars are not either side of it. |
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Post by davidd on Jan 27, 2022 14:45:03 GMT 12
Yagi aerials on the B-24D signify that radar equipment was probably the American-built SCR-521, which was their equivalent of the British ASV Mk. II. Similar equipment and aerials were fitted on the RNZAF's B-34s, and also most of our Catalinas, but cannot recall off top of my head what the Navy designation was (probably ASE).
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