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[RyanShort1]

Originally Posted by murphyaa

I'm working on a project to have a model of every aircraft present at Pearl Harbor, in the markings it would have carried. Sans the B-17, which John Dell has so masterfully done already.

This is what I have so far.
Japanese

Aichi D3A (Val) -Completed
Aichi E13A (Jake) -Need Model
Mitsubishi A6M Rei-sen (Zero) -Completed
Nakajima B5N (Kate) -Need Model

United States

Boeing P-26 Peashooter -Need Model
Brewster F2A (Buffalo) -Need Markings
Consolidated PBY Catalina -Need Markings
Curtiss A-12 (Shrike) -Need Markings
Curtiss P-36 Hawk -Completed
Curtiss P-40 Warhawk -Need Model
Douglas A-20 Havoc / Boston -Need Model
Douglas B-18 Bolo -Completed
Douglas SBD Dauntless -Need Model
Grumman F4F Wildcat -Need Model
Grumman Goose -Need Model
North American T-6 Texan -Need Model
Seversky P-35 Fighter Aircraft -Need Model
Sikorsky JRS-1 / Sikorsky S-43 -Need Model
Vought OS2U Kingfisher -Need Model
Vought SB2U Vindicator -Need Model

Sorry, but I have to add to that list... at least:

Piper Cub
Interstate Cadet
DC-3
Aeronca TC-65

https://www.flightjournal.com/wp-con...SundayRide.pdf
https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/...t-pearl-harbor
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/histo...ort-180960786/
First Planes Down at Pearl | HistoryNet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelia_Fort
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2NowsgeMJk
https://www.airspacemag.com/history-...rns-180960967/

[Don Boose]

Murph -

Email on the way with color info on PBY Catalinas in Hawai'i on 7 December 1941.

Interesting video on civilian aircraft Ryan identified lost during the attack and those that survived: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2NowsgeMJk (seems to be an accurate documentary, although the narrator pronounces "Aeronca" as "Aeronica."

And an article on Cornelia Fort's Interstate Cadet (portrayed in the film Tora! Tora! Tora! by a Boeing-Stearman PT-13): The Lost Aviators of Pearl Harbor Project

More info on the civilian aircraft: https://www.lostaviatorsofpearlharbor.org/

You can add Waco UIC and Aeronca 50-TC.

Don

[John Dell]

You’ll have to add a B-24 to the list.

From Consolidated B-24 Liberator published in 1998 by Martin W. Bowman…

“Destroyed on the ground at Hickman Field was a specially modified B-24A ready for an armed reconnaissance of Japanese installations in the Marshalls and Carolines, and particularly Truk and Jaluit.”

[Don Boose]

Good info, John. I'd love to know the serial number and markings of that airplane. There is a discussion here, but the links to purported info and images no longer work: iB::Topic::B-24 destroyed at Hickam

Murph - This site will be valuable for your project: Aircraft at Pearl Harbor

Looks like the result of good research, but unfortunately, it is undocumented, so no indication of the sources on which the list is based.

Don

[John Dell]

Thanks for the link Don. Here is another link with some potentially useful information.

https://www.findagrave.com/virtual-cemetery/290781?page=1#sr-13419450

It appears this was B-24A 40-2371. I also found this photo that is supposed to be her remains after the attack. I’ll see what else I can dig up.

[Don Boose]

This is interesting material, John.

I was fascinated by the reference to the 44th Bomb Group. As you know, the 44th Bomb Group has a close connection with the U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center, which includes among kits holdings Kevin Stephens's model of your B-24D 42-63962 "Princess," a 44th BG ship signed by surviving members of the group. They also have a set of commemorative bricks at USAHEC.

It would be interesting if 40-2371 had been detached from the 44th (which had been activated in January 1941 at MacDill Field),but the references in the article are very hazy.

Don

[The Mole]

Murph,
I have been looking around and it looks like you have just about done a design of all the USAF Thunderbirds except the T-33 and the F-4 Phantom.

If you did these two you could do a bundle of the USAF Thunderbirds and throw in the F-16XL Thunderbird as a bonus. $$$$$$$$$

[murphyaa]

Originally Posted by The Mole

Murph,
I have been looking around and it looks like you have just about done a design of all the USAF Thunderbirds except the T-33 and the F-4 Phantom.

If you did these two you could do a bundle of the USAF Thunderbirds and throw in the F-16XL Thunderbird as a bonus. $$$$$$$$$

I've already got an air show bundle that includes all the different performers planes.

[The Mole]

Originally Posted by murphyaa

I've already got an air show bundle that includes all the different performers planes.

You have made me wish I had a time machine so I could go forward an buy this bundle.
I'm working on your Skyblazer at the moment. I have made a few changes. The first change I made was made it so I could turn the first page over after printing and print a black square on the inside of part one.
The second change I made was taken out the gray color and replaced it with a metal color background.
So far so good.
The Airshow bundle sounds good.

[cafe]

About the planes present Pearl Harbor, there were also a Douglas RD-3 Dolphin and 2 J2F Duck that survived the attack. There's at least one picture of them. My source (special issue #13 of french magazine Los!, about the the Pearl Harbor attack) also has the same picture of the destroyed B-24.