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...nose switched over to a glass nose at some point before being leant to the French Air Force (Armee de l'Air). This plane was leant to France.

...to the 614th Army Air Force Base Unit and was piloted by John E. Prey. The plane was repaired and put back into service. Here the plane is shown as a TB-26 model in storage at Wright-Patterson AFB, OH. The canon

...e Invader Training Video and many promotional videos. The markings on this plane were something of a puzzle. After a lot of research I have been able to det This plane's operational history is well known because we have the planes IARC.

...oblems. The original tests were carried out on Loch Striven against an old French Battleship in mothball, the Courbet. The range finding buoys were misplaced ...ft|The modified bomb bay of plane [[43-22644]], which was used as the test plane for Operation Speedee.]]

This plane is finished in an overall grey with red wing tips and red and white engine ...That type of arrangement is accurate for this plane. However, none of the plane at Kellogg ever wore red paint. In fact, no A-26s that I have ever seen hav

...records indicate which planes bore which tail letters, tracking down which plane bore which tail letters during a specific point it time is less accurate. S Since its recreation, the squadron has participated in all French foreign operations requiring the intervention of the air force (Harmattan i

...d would end up as standard equipment on all B-26K models, which served the plane crews well in the harsh climates of Southeast Asia in the coming years. Not ...escape vehicle. Eventually, desperation and need forced them to refit the plane as a makeshift recon vehicle which the crew jokingly called "U-3" as a tong

...August of 1943 and became the fastest American bomber of World War 2. The plane saw extensive action in varying roles throughout the conflict both in the E ...he AI Mk X radar systems from old Meteor NF.11 jet-powered night-fighters. French systems operated their Invaders with gun pods and underwing rockets.

...he text also says that the plane carried two more guns in turrets, but the plane carried both guns in a single dorsal turret, the ventral turret had been de This is not correct. Photographic evidence shows that no Block 50 plane was fitted with an 8-gun nose. All of them wore 6-guns, a fact which is unk

...prolific operator of the Douglas Invader, after the US Air force, and the French Air Force (Armeé de L'Air). The Navy operated 152 Invaders under the desig ...ate our information as new records become available. Note that some of the plane's individual records have been lost to time so there will be some occasiona