JK retrospective: 8th Air Force Fighter Groups

[jankees]

I mentioned earlier that I painted a lot of Mustangs. Turns out that I think I produced paints for all Fighter groups of the US 8th Air Force, the one based in the UK during the war, and in most cases, I painted many different ones for each fighter group.

 

So let's try to see if I have all of them:

the 4th FG, based in Debden, had red noses:

wbs0001 by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

 

the 20th FG, based in Kingscliffe, sported piano keys:

jk3251 by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

 

the 55th FG, based in Wormingford, had yellow and green checks:

jk5995 by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

 

the 78th FG, based in Duxford had black & white checkers over the entire nose:

jk6005 by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

 

the 339th FG, based in Fowlmere had a band of red and white checkers:

jk6124 by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

 

the 352nd FG, based in Bodney were known as the Blue-nosed bastards of Bodney:

PEX by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

 

the 353rd FG, based in Rayden, had yellow and black checks:

FX7760 by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

 

the 355th FG , from Steeple Morden, had blue bands around the nose with a white prop

jk6198 by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

 

the 356th FG, based in Martlesham Heath, had red noses with blue diamonds:

jk6179 by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

 

and the 357th from Yoxford, had red and yellow checkers:

jk6159 by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

 

to be continued..

[peer01]

WOW!!!!!:cool::cool::cool::cool:

[jankees]

the 359th FG from East Wrentham had green noses

jk6031 by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

 

the 361st FG was based in Little Walden and had yellow noses

jk6044 by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

 

the 364th FG, based in Honington had white and blue noses

5E_O_05 by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

 

and the 479th FG from Wattisham did not paint their noses

J2-K_03 by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

 

and finally, there was the 56th FG, who did not fly Mustangs, but continued to fly P-47's throughout the war. I painted those too:

anntarget by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

 

I painted a lot more Mustangs, but these were all the different fighter groups of the 8th Air Force

[peer01]

Same comment again! :cool::cool::cool::cool:

[NMLW]

Beautifully done! :cool: :)