425 pics #248

You did it perfectly!
Here's the original photo that Slimm referred to -- it's on Tony's USAAF-in-CBI website: 

  
  
  
 

Cool, I have the photos Roger posted as well. I am not on Facebook but will check that out. I thought my mother had lost or gave away my dads war photos then I found them stashed away in my cellar. My dad never talk much about the war. That's why last week I started looking into what he did after finding the photos and info he stored.
 
Some of the other photos he had were of nose art.
the bombers  included Snafu, "80 days",  Lonesome Polecat, one that looks like Raacky Runner, and one that has Chinese or Japanese markings.
 
He had a clipping out of I assume might be Yank? It was a small write up with a quote from  Jack E. Mackey when he was on Malicious.  I would rather scan and post it then rewrite it. I got a kick out of his quote.
 
He also had some aerials.
Bomber formations and photos of the bombs dropping out of those formations
 
And some photos of pin ups that visited Ann Sheridan and Jinx Falkenburg. Glad he wrote the names on the photos that was before my time.
 
Thanks, to everyone who kept this info available on the internet

Some of the other photos he had were of nose art.
the bombers included Snafu, "80 days", Lonesome Polecat, one that looks like Raacky Runner, and one that has Chinese or Japanese markings.

He had a clipping out of I assume might be Yank? It was a small write up with a quote from Jack E. Mackey when he was on Malicious. I would rather scan and post it then rewrite it. I got a kick out of his quote.

He also had some aerials.
Bomber formations and photos of the bombs dropping out of those formations

And some photos of pin ups that visited Ann Sheridan and Jinx Falkenburg. Glad he wrote the names on the photos that was before my time.

"Snafu" and "80 Days" are 308th names.  Both "80 Days" and "Lonesome Polecat" were carried by two consecutive aircraft, the second being "Lonesome Polecat Jr." The one with Chinese characters on the nose is "China Doll." Not familiar with "Raacky Runner," though an early Cadre plane was "Rum Runner." Haven't heard of "Malicious" before.
 
The actresses visited the 38th on USO Tours; I believe that Sheridan may have been the inspiration for the nose art on "Shooting Star."
 

I would suggest that "Raacky Runner" is really "Krachy Kourier" 42-73310. 
I, too, have never run across "Malicious," yet.
The B-24 with "Chinese or Japanese markings" is probably the third iteration of "China Doll" 42-40367.  The first "China Doll" 41-24066 crash-landed in British Guyana on an early leg of the trip to China, and the second "China Doll" 42-40070 was destroyed within an hour of its arrival at Kunming in a Japanese air raid.
The Kowloon photo appeared in the 1957 and 1958 14th AF Association Annual Pictorial Magazine.

Yes that is it Krachy Kourier.... Its a off angle shot but I can see the dot on the I in my picture.
 
I have a scanner but it wont scan. Does anyone know if you have to have both ink cartridges filled for it to scan?
 
Thanks,
Slimm

The only MALICIOUS I know about...
HALPRO #22 [C] - Transferred to 9 376 513 (Z/46)
http://www.b24bestweb.com/Pics-M-MALA-MALZ.htm

slimm

Maybe Malicious wasn't part of the 308th??? Don't know how that would have worked as far as Jack switching Bomber groups. I know it said he had taken part in 39 missions, including Kowloon Docks and qualified as a ace gunner.

Slimm

Slimm,
I didn't see a post with possible dates for your father's time with the 308th.  Based on the photos you have I must presume it was mid-to-late 1944 thru part of 1945.

Name of several of the 308th's planes from that time period have not yet have identified.  We know some of those currently without names did not have one,  however, some possibly did and we simply have yet to discover/confirm those names.

Did you fix your scanner yet?  ;)  I'm looking forward to those photos ...

Pretty cool photo.
 
One photo shows the bombs dropped from another bomber lower left

Still have a few more will post later