Miscellaneous Icons

[MarkSheppard]

First up is an olive drab A-26 Invader -- which was to be used by FEAF in the Pacific if the war had continued past August 1945. These modified OD invaders had provisions for rockets and bombs on the wings, and had the belly turret deleted and replaced with more fuel tankage.

"Gen Kenney, commander of the Far East Air Forces and an early critic of the A-26, informed Gen Arnold on 15 July that 'the A-26 with the eight-gun nose and without the belly turret has proven highly satisfactory as a replacement and for the A-20 and later on for the B-25.' He requested that the reequipping of his 3rd and 417th Group be expedited and that a schedule be sent to him for planning purposes."

--Crowood's "Douglas A-26 and B-26 Invader" by Scott A. Thompson

Attached is a BMP icon of my rendition.

[MarkSheppard]

Attached in a ZIP are my modifications of the SPACMO MBT F-82 icon(s) to produce a WW2 era P-82; I did these before I found out through research that the P-82 was cancelled around April 1945.

RG179 War Production Board, NARA II
Select Document File
Boxes 21-30
Declassified through NND 730022

MONTHLY MUNITIONS REPORT
W-14 Plane Program
Revised through May 25, 1945

WAR PRODUCTION BOARD
Program and Statistics Bureau
Military Division, Aircraft Branch
April 29,1945

Confidential

...

P-82 PROGRAM CANCELLED

Only 20 P-82 fighters will be turned out at North American, Inglewood instead of the 786 previously scheduled. The P-82 is a twin-engine fighter with Merlin engines. First flight tests indicated that a long period of development would be necessary so it was decided to hold production to pilot-line operation. Only a few hundred workers are now engaged in P-82 work but this cutback should make possible release of 2,000 to 3,000 workers who were to have been shifted to P-82 production.

[MarkSheppard]

Attached is my attempt at a rendition of the SC-1 Seahawk Floatplane reconnaissance aircraft which was per Naval Aeronautic Organization, 23 July 1945 expected to:

For planning purposes BBU now using OS2U as substitutes for SC are assumed to be re-equipped with SC by Oct 1945.

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"For planning purposes CAU now using OS2U or SOC as substitute for SC are assumed to be re-equipped with SC by Oct 1945."

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"For planning purposes CLU now using OS2U or SOC as substitute for SC are assumed to be re-equipped with SC by Oct 1945."

[MarkSheppard]

Attached is my attempt at a PBJ Mitchell series of Icons for the USMC OOB. Contains a glass nose and a solid nose strafer version in USN Blue.