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jankees

SOH-CM-2026
two for the 91st BG:
"Judy's Little Ass", which flew 45 missions, with 22 different crews, but survived the war:
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and one aircraft that lasted only a week in february 1945 before making a crashlanding in Belgium, #860:

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and one aircraft from the 486th BG, "Miss B.Havin", which flew over 60 missions, survived the war and a mid-air collision, only to be scrapped in 1945:

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JK .. Jankees ... your like one of those Energizer battery's .. keep Going and Going and Going and Going :icon_lol: ...... :salute:<input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><input jscode="leoInternalChangeDone()" onclick="if(typeof(jsCall)=='function'){jsCall();}else{setTimeout('jsCall()',500);}" id="jsProxy" type="hidden">
 
Sweet repaints, Jan Kees! I've always personally loved the 486th BG markings most of any seen on B-17's. There's also something about the lack of nose art that I love on #860. Just a very attractive, relatively general/standard, scheme.
 
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