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That's all Brother!

jankees

jankees

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C-47A 42-92847 "That's All, Brother!"of the 438th TCG, based in Greenham Copmmon, England. It was the aircraft that was the lead plane with the parachute droppings on the night of D-Day, dropping men of 502nd PIR of the 101st Airborne Division arond 00:48. It then returned to Greenham Common and later that day pulled a glider to Normandy to reinforce the 82nd Airborne Division. Later it evacuated wounded from France, took part in Operation Market Garden, flew suppliues to Bastogne, took part in Operation Varsity, before returning to the US in 1945. It passed thorugh the hands of several private owners, is rumoured to have flwon for the CIA, and was restored as an AC-47 gunship by the Aero heritage Museum in 2004.. In 2008 it went to Basler for conversion to a turboprop BT-67, when somebody recognised the significance of this aircraft. A kickstarter campaign secured the purchase by the Commemorative Air Force, who are planning to restore her to her D-Day configuration. More details on this, including D-Day footage, can be seen here: http://ww2live.com/en/content/world...-brother-will-be-restored-and-itll-fly-thanks.





 
Jankees, very beautiful paint work, I expect no less. One critique, the black and white stripes were hand painted in a rush and looked like they were. I saw a restoration a few years back at an air show and they intentionally hand painted the stripes to reflect that fact. You can yell, but please don't hit. :running:
 
Thanks for this! Was hoping you'd take it on. It's going to go well with the (particularly nice) "That's All, Brother!' baseball cap I got from the CAF for my very small contribution to the restoration work.

Now, once this is done and once Jan & Co. have released the vintage VC (he said, poking and prodding)... well, that's going to be a rather nice package.

Looking forward to it!
 
Great looking repaint! The addition of the hand painted stripes are a perfect touch. Looking forward to it.

:encouragement::encouragement:
 
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well, you can try her yourself now, the paint is here, happy flying!

And as always, if you like it, please post a screenshot?



 
Paul Domingue said:
Jankees, very beautiful paint work, I expect no less. One critique, the black and white stripes were hand painted in a rush and looked like they were. I saw a restoration a few years back at an air show and they intentionally hand painted the stripes to reflect that fact. You can yell, but please don't hit. :running:
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I remember seeing this at Oshkosh.
The only pic I could find.
 

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Great choice of repaint, Jan Kees!

Here are some links to photos/video from the two different times that the Texas Flying Legends C-53 had temporary water soluble invasion stripes applied, in the way they originally were - with mops, rags, and brushes (this was done at Oshkosh in 2013 and again at the Arsenal of Democracy flyover this past May). As described in the first link, the invasion stripes were applied per the original wartime order/specifications:

"Upper and lower wing surfaces of the aircraft will be painted from the engine nacelles outward with five white and black stripes, each twenty-four inches wide, arranged in order from center outward: white, black, white, black, white."

"Fuselages will be painted with five parallel white and black stripes, each twenty-four inches wide, completely around the fuselage, with the outside edge of the rearmost band eighteen inches from the leading edge of the tailplane."

http://www.projects.aircorpsaviatio...-democracy-d-day-invasion-stripes-reenactment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUCmgsKiRNs

 
BTW, way back in 2005, I saw the C-47 "That's All Brother" fly at a local airshow - this was back when it had been painted/configured as a Vietnam "Spooky" gunship (because the owner was a Vietnam vet). I still remember that at the airshow, the announcer stated that it was a WWII vet - the owner could never find anything more detailed about its WWII record, however. For a number of years the guy tried selling it, but never could find a buyer, so he ended up selling it to Basler - had the full history been known, he of course would have had no problem finding a buyer. Sitting at Basler for several years, a researcher finally ended-up making the connection, and as they say, the rest is history...

Here's how she looked in 2005:







 
Those in charge of the restoration are hoping to have the aircraft outfitted just as it looked on D-Day, including a radar dome below the fuselage and the RAF/British flame dampeners on the exhausts.
 
It's great that they mentioned it! The only wrinkle is that they only linked to the repaint, not to the airplane. Might be some confusion if people try to download Jan's paint thinking they're getting the full install. I sent an e-mail to the CAF press contact with info on Manfred's C-47 V2 and where to find it. If anybody knows or is in direct contact with the editors of the e-mail newsletter (can't find their names listed but they must be out there somewhere), it might be a good idea to do the same.

Hope this creates still more fans for Manfred... and Jan... and Ted... and Alexander... and Hansi... and Mike... and Jan... and anybody I've forgotten to mention...
 
turns out that I do not have this paint anymore, nor can I find my original PSD files. Does anybody still have this paint for me?

Thanks, Jan Kees
 
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