I have got an update from the guy in the photo which is fantastic as he is 85 and still going well. He calls them B26's. I have edited a bit of politics out of it as this is a public forum. I will tell you about it in chat or PM you if you want. other than that here it is.
Our aircraft were from wwII. They had a jet bomber I think it was a B45 not sure of the number though. Well flying in the mountains did not work with the jet so they called up the B26's. Many of them had been converted for special uses after the war and as they needed more than were available at the time they recalled many of them and reworked them back to combat ready. But because of the rework they were not all really alike. Some had the flap handle and the gear handle swapped around and we had problems when people confused them pulling the handle they thought was for flaps and it was for gears as they went along on the ground and up went the nose gear and the plane nosed over stopping the props in the concrete or dirt. Like wise problems when they wanted gears and got flaps. Also start switches were located in different position, over head, on the side and down on center console. we did rewire and change things at times to improve things but not much time for that in combat so crews just had to remember to check every plane to see what was where. We always used to say they were "some, certain, other planes" Some things here, certain things there, still other somewhere else. We did do a lot of damage to trains, bridges and roads starting as the first bombers in the conflict and the last at 10:59 the last day. xxx(edit)xxx I never was sure if we really did anything over there until just last year when I received a book about Korea from the South Korean government and there was a letter form their President thanking us on behalf of the Korean people for saving their democracy. The artwork on the plane was there from when I got the plane so I just changed the name as the girl was long legged like Nancy. I lost some photos that I had with numbers close up so never could really trace the plane after I got home. We did get hit by small arms fire taking off at our base by goriallas as we went to Japan for heavy maintenance but they missed all the essentials and all we had where holes in the skin and marks on the armor plate. I have not thought about this stuff for quite a while.
