Enjoy all these B-17F from the 92th BG, 327th BS , airfield were Bovinton at first ( 18 August 42), goes for North Africa in November, moved to Alconbury on 4 January 43 and finally to Padington until the end of the war. They flew there 5th war mission not until May 43.



Little story of the 92th BG and 8 AF markings, adapted from Roger Freeman "the Mighty Eight warpaint & heraldy":

* B-17F were delivered in August 42, yellow serial number on the fin, no group marking, B-17E for the 326th BS used as a training Squadron.
* Dec 42 the 2 code Squadron letters (UX for the 327 BS) + the individual call letter were painted in pale blue-grey
* April 43 327 BS was the only Squadron in the USAF to be equipped with the escort B-17 named YB-40 (these too heavy planes with a 2nd dorsal turret were not appreciated)
* June 43 the bars were added to the star national marking and all was red outlined, "triangle B" was added as a group marking and applied to the fin and right upper wing, a yellow call-letter was also painted below the tail number
* September 43 Star and bars was blue insigna outlined (17 Sept 43), first B-17G reach the 8 AF, B-17F reach his peak with around 800 planes
* Mars 44 first natural metal B-17G delivered to the unit (the very first was in February)
* April 44 triangle B was applied under the left wing but discontinued later in the year
* Jun 44 last camo B-17 were delivered due to delays at depots
* Jully 44 only 30 B-17F were still used in the 8 AF, 1st CBW (91BG, 381BG, 398BG) was the first to paint hight visibility marking (red on fin and wings tips)
* 28 August 44, hight visibility markings were assigned to all 8AF BG, a wide horizontal red band on the fin for the 92th BG, and 327th BS used blue coloured propeller bosses
* 7 Oct 44 was the last war normal daylight mission for a B-17F with the 8AF.
* camouflaged machines continued to form part of formation until the 8AF last mission of the war on the 25th April 45, witch was led by the 92th BG.



The new files:

- a.3dz is for the dorsal turret, I translate the gun to the rear
- e and g.3dz are for the wings, I do a bigger mask over the mirrored national marking witch is paintable on the upper right wing
- f.3dz, move one of the two tail MGs to the nose, and move the radome under the nose
- all the nose art and names are freely adapted from real 92 BG bombers 


Thanks to Alessandro Borges for 3d_Studio, and to Pretzel who extract the 3dz files from the EAW directory


				LLv34_Doc             1st February 2001
   
7/4/01

Winter Pe-8 VVS from B-17 based on LLv34_Doc's great B-17...until we get a better
one!  Feel free to make any changes...PCXs included!
I had to include the pbb17n.pcx and pbb17n.tpc files in order to overwrite
the nose art...I don't think VVS bombers had it.

Musgrove
http://12iap.topcities.com/musgrove.htm

