http://forum.armyairforces.com/(c) ArmyAirForces30With further public thanks to user "106Boom" on this forum (all the credit goes to his work), I can now also report the tail number of the B-25 that was the backdrop to the two pictures with an armament section and a medical section provided earlier in thttp://forum.armyairforces.com/fb.ashx?m=163380Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:45:48 GMTRussell Johnson from Gilligan's Island was a bombardier who crashed in Zamboanga in March 1945...my Dad's last mission was over Zamboanga on 3-3-45(13AAF, 42nd BG, 75th BS)...would anyone know what BG, BS Russell Johnson was affiliated with????http://forum.armyairforces.com/fb.ashx?m=162845Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:31:28 GMTI think there may have been 2 EDUCATED Death......I have some pictures...my e-maul is imaxfli@tds.nethttp://forum.armyairforces.com/fb.ashx?m=162844Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:27:38 GMTThese links to short YouTube videos by Les Loken (13th AF veteran, now deceased) provide an excellent context to understand what the airmen of the 13th AF were up against in addition to the Japanese... [link=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQKFhttp://forum.armyairforces.com/fb.ashx?m=162509Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:39:47 GMTThrough the efforts of Carol talking with her dad, and also by the user "106BOOM" on this here forum who worked from information I provided him and by his direct examination of records at AFHRA, it can be reported, with great certainty, that 42-87369 ishttp://forum.armyairforces.com/fb.ashx?m=162479Wed, 05 Nov 2008 13:01:04 GMTFurther research in Jeff Baugher's tail number databases suggests we are looking for serials numbers such as 42-87369 and the like, which would represent a B-25D-25 block aircraft. It would not have been 41-30369 or similar, because that specific nuhttp://forum.armyairforces.com/fb.ashx?m=162132Tue, 28 Oct 2008 08:31:26 GMTCarol, I looked last evening at my microfilmed archives of the 100th BS, covering May through December 1944. The records in May give no detail, but the records throughout June and early July provide many mission reports that listed pilots and bomhttp://forum.armyairforces.com/fb.ashx?m=162131Tue, 28 Oct 2008 08:08:34 GMTKevin, Wow! Thank you so much for all that you have sent. A lot of information to absorb and run past my father. I have resent him the four pictures I have of the plane(s) to see if he can further acknowlege the fact that thehttp://forum.armyairforces.com/fb.ashx?m=162109Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:06:47 GMTFor completeness sake, attached is the "Armament" photograph of Educated Death, which was posted by another armyairforces.com member in a separated thread on the 97th Armament (supposedly who is in the picture) under the 42nd BG series. Carol, is thttp://forum.armyairforces.com/fb.ashx?m=162064Sun, 26 Oct 2008 10:37:13 GMTCarol, I reread your posting again after my lengthy reply, and I note that you specifically said that your dad flew his plane overseas in 1943. I also note that you specifically said he painted his nose art on Stirling Island. And in responshttp://forum.armyairforces.com/fb.ashx?m=162053Sat, 25 Oct 2008 23:22:39 GMTCarol, It was probably two years ago, 2006, that I talked with your dad. Not last year. I can't find my notes right this minute to confirm exactly when, but this is what I recall. When I called on the telephone it was to talk abouthttp://forum.armyairforces.com/fb.ashx?m=162052Sat, 25 Oct 2008 23:00:53 GMTKevin, What is it that makes you believe that there are two planes with the same name and basically the same nose art? That would be amazing in and of itself. However, according to my father, his plane was the only one with that nohttp://forum.armyairforces.com/fb.ashx?m=162048Sat, 25 Oct 2008 21:34:04 GMTI had the pleasure of talking with Herb Sunderman on the telephone, plus exchanging postal mail with him, about a year ago as I was researching my uncle, Roy Anderson, who also flew with the 100th BS as a replacement pilot in 1944, and while researchinghttp://forum.armyairforces.com/fb.ashx?m=161544Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:51:23 GMTKelly, My father was the Captain and pilot of the plane you have a picture of - "Educated Death". He is the first person on your left - Herbert J. Sunderman. The rest of the crew is named in the order you see them. I am presentlyhttp://forum.armyairforces.com/fb.ashx?m=161417Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:31:37 GMTHeschler, I know you were inguiring about this aircraft back in 2005 but I thought you might be interested in knowing that the plane Educated Death was flown in the Pacific, 73 missions and was named by my father, Herbert J.Sunderman who was Chttp://forum.armyairforces.com/fb.ashx?m=161416Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:20:04 GMTimaxfli. A year later and I see your posting. Hopefully you will see this message as my father was the one who named the plane. I am currently putting together a documentary about his plane and his service during WWII. He washttp://forum.armyairforces.com/fb.ashx?m=161415Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:08:40 GMTMy father named the B-25 "Educated Death". I am in the process of putting together a documentary on his service. If you could send me any pictures of that plane, I would greatly appreciate it. Carol Gordonhttp://forum.armyairforces.com/fb.ashx?m=161410Sat, 11 Oct 2008 11:33:31 GMTTwo more photos of 42nd BG B-25s on ebay. Put 42nd Bomb Group in their search. Good for 6 days from today.http://forum.armyairforces.com/fb.ashx?m=161305Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:10:41 GMTHello to everyone, Ken Terpstra posted some wonderful photos of Capt. Edward H. Morrison on this link: http://b26http://forum.armyairforces.com/fb.ashx?m=160938Mon, 29 Sep 2008 01:09:21 GMTI just received the IDPF file for Stanley M. Rovinsky. The one item of interest in the package was MACR#1668, which is missing from the National Archives. Although it does not shed any more light on what the circumstances were in the disappeahttp://forum.armyairforces.com/fb.ashx?m=158080Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:30:39 GMT