Re: The Blue Goose Revisited
Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2023 11:27 am
Perhaps I was being too diplomatic in previous comments about that Don Greer sideview.
It is just guesswork, and not very good guesswork. As pointed out, the radio call number would not have been applied in that format. The blue vertical tail stripe is a pre-war marking, the red and white rudder stripes and the red-centered cocarde had been discontinued by the time 41-2616 reached Hawaii.
The name on the nose might borrow a little of the style of lettering on 98th Bomb Squadron planes like The Skipper but it is pure speculation.
Nothing in that sideview is based on photographic or documentary evidence. I recall that Ernie was struggling to find “Pacific” subjects for sideviews because we knew so little about them. Unfortunately, this was the result.
It is just guesswork, and not very good guesswork. As pointed out, the radio call number would not have been applied in that format. The blue vertical tail stripe is a pre-war marking, the red and white rudder stripes and the red-centered cocarde had been discontinued by the time 41-2616 reached Hawaii.
The name on the nose might borrow a little of the style of lettering on 98th Bomb Squadron planes like The Skipper but it is pure speculation.
Nothing in that sideview is based on photographic or documentary evidence. I recall that Ernie was struggling to find “Pacific” subjects for sideviews because we knew so little about them. Unfortunately, this was the result.