Hey guys, kudos for the great skins. They really do make the game more authentic and interesting. I was wondering if any of you fantastic skinners would be interested in recreating my father's B-24 that he flew in as a navigator in WWII. The crew named their aircraft "Little Lulu." I have color renditions of the aircraft which I can provide.
The aircraft was a B-24H, serial# 42-52479, attached to the 15th AF, 55th BW, 464thBG/776thBS. It was factory olive drab in color with the gray underbelly and had great black and yellow markings. The nose art was the cartoon character "Little Lulu" in a red dress, standing on a dropping bomb holding her signature lollipop. The aircraft amassed 52 of those yellow lollipops painted on the nose before she was shot down on mission 53 by a bf-109 on a bombing mission over Czechoslavakia. My dad and his crew were not in the aircraft on that fatal mission. They had earned their ticket home three days before and were packing their B-4 bags for rotation back to the U.S. Incredible providence!
I personally fly with the Dickweed Heavy Bomber Group in AH and myself was a career Naval Aviator, flying the P-3 Orion subhunter. This game is very meaningful to me and I fly mostly bombing missions, although I do try to venture in to fighter world on occassion but am not very good in that space. I am 74 now, and it would be a great honor for me to be able to fly my dad's aircraft in the game. But even more importantly, it would honor his memory for many more years to come and I would be eternally grateful.
