B-26 reference recomendations

Hi jbatesc6,

Here's an excellent B-26 reference page with nothing BUT walkaround pictures! Check it out!

http://www.philsaeronauticalstuff.com/a-26b/a-26b.html

Good luck, and of course, we'd love to see your kit when it gets going!

Take care,
Frank

There are some pics at the Wright Patterson AFB Museum. This link will lead to a page where you can find a few pics & some info.

http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/research/bombers/bomber3.htm

Hope this helps.

Hey pixilater I was on that instrument panel sight that you posted on that T-6...It might help: http://gra.midco.net/mgould/

I believe he's asking about the Marauder (THE B-26!), not the Invader.

I dug out some links that may be useful. These are from my reference database; if I have time I'll try and search out some more stuff on the web as well as from my own references.

B-26 Marauder Historical Society - There's not much here for walkaround type'a photos. But lotsa interesting info, nonetheless.

B-26 Names & Numbers... - Again, no walkaround stuff, but ALOTTA links to nose art photos. Some images are kinda bad, but this is all great stuff.

B-26 Nose Art - This is a link to the gallery to which many of the links on the page above will lead.

B-26 During WWII Service - There's one decent shot of the interior on the first page; the rest are period shots of Marauders in action etc. This is part of the same site as the above two links, so if you grunge around you may find some more stuff. I have yet to fully explore the site myself.

B-26 Tailgunner - Again, no details here, really. Lotsa photos (not always the best quality) and info.

B-26 marauder.com - Yet another site without detail shots...

B-26 under restoration at the MAPS Museum

B-26.com - At First there seems to be no photos whatsoever on this site, but if you follow the links around you'll find a buncha stuff. Alas, no detail photos, AGAIN! LOL But this page is a valuable research tool as there are many links to other pages.

The CAF B-26 - Finally, there's some photos that may be of use to you, but they're freakin' tiny! Oh well...

French B-26G Restoration - AH! More decent photos of the interior etc. This is a pretty good site.

B-26 Videos - This page is part of the same site as the first few links above. Some cool stuff here, including some poor repros of the well-known Burdge Film.

Be sure to grunge around on these sites; even though many of them don't have walkaround type stuff there are lotsa links and you may find something useful.


Fade to Black...

definitly some decent links out there - thanks for the recomendations - nobody has any book reccomends? I'm gonna try and contact some of these people and see if more photos could be posted or e-mailed especially from the confederate boys- make a donation of something - hell if I Lived nearer I'd be cleaning there hanger or doing anything I could!

I know a couple years back, the Aerosciences museum near here was working on restoring a B-26. Last time I was there, they had assembled the fuselage and the bomb bays were in place....but it was pretty much stripped bare. Also-- I believe the museum was supposed to be restoring it for another museum in the west and the other place ended up trying to sue them for not getting it restored in enough time....never really knew what happened with that...I may have to visit again sometime soon-- but the focus of the place is mainly jets...yuck!

They do have the Akagi scale model that was used in Tora Tora Tora there though.....