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« Reply #1 on: September 22, 2007, 11:07:10 AM »
Thanks mate, I've seen those photo's before. Trouble is that I have no photo's of it from WW2.

Maybe Dan could help. If I say spit xii 3 times :)
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« Reply #2 on: September 22, 2007, 01:10:59 PM »
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Thanks mate, I've seen those photo's before. Trouble is that I have no photo's of it from WW2.

Maybe Dan could help. If I say spit xii 3 times :)


Best I can do for now.  I'll do some more digging.

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« Reply #3 on: September 22, 2007, 08:52:46 PM »
Thanks Dan,

 I would've thought that such nose art would have a picture, but I cannot see it.

JR
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« Reply #4 on: September 23, 2007, 11:41:17 AM »
Dan, do you have this book?

Squadron Signal No 34 B25 Mitchell in Action, E. McDowell, Michigan, 1978

Does it have any relevant information?

TIA


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BALIKPAPAN, BORNEO, 1945. B-25 MITCHELL BOMBER AIRCRAFT, A47-29, KO-D, FROM NO. 2 SQUADRON RAAF AT THE SEPINGGANG AIRSTRIP


http://cas.awm.gov.au/TST2/ump.retrieve_uma?surl=1419143884ZZQHOAWZNEFQ&parm1=UMO_ID&parm2=358053&parm1=DISPLAY_TYPE&parm2=RAW&parm1=DISPLAY_WHAT&parm2=MASTER&parm1=LOGIN_TYPE&parm2=PROFILEG&parm1=AID&parm2=2000
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