Thursday, March 27 2008
By Ryan on Thursday, March 27 2008, 11:09
There are many rumors running around the internet concerning the status of the
pink lady, many of them untrue, and so I would like to dedicate this entry to
clarifying certain points.
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Thursday, January 31 2008
By Ryan on Thursday, January 31 2008, 20:40 - Royan
This entry contains a first-hand account
of "the little Royan War" (see the
Mission: Royan entry wirh tegards to the Pink Lady's
involvement) as told by Bob, who has been kind enough to share his vivid
recollections of the day.
I was on the ground when the short war was fought to clear the Germans from
what we knew as the Royan Pocket. Besides The Free French forces that would do
the ground fighting, support was being provided by the U. S. 8th Air Force,
also there were American ground troops, three battalions of Field Artillery,
155 mm howitzers. I was the Battalion Survey and Instrument Sgt. in one of
them, the 257th Field Artillery Battalion. I was also trained as a forward
observer and this was what I worked at during this little war. Though now 83, I
have a pretty good memory of what went on during this event. The accounts that
I have read however, do not coincide well with what I saw happen.
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Thursday, September 27 2007
By Ryan on Thursday, September 27 2007, 13:24
It is about time I addressed the issue of
Half Pint, as this name comes up repeatedly in connection with 448846.
In 1945, there was a 14-year old schoolboy who was fascinated by the nose art
of the B-17s. This boy took care to document the nose art and other markings of
over 100 B-17s stationed at the 351st air base at Chelveston from the 305th,
303rd, 379th, 306th and 92nd Bomber Groups.
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Sunday, July 8 2007
By Ryan on Sunday, July 8 2007, 22:07
Here are a couple of videos of the Pink Lady in flight:
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Sunday, April 8 2007
By Ryan on Sunday, April 8 2007, 14:47
It appears as though the Pink Lady will be flying at this year's
La Ferté 2007 Air Show!
The show will be held from the 26th to 27th of May 2007, at the Cerny-la
Ferté-Alais private airport, and is held by Amicale Jean-Baptiste Salis. For
more information, please contact the association at:
Amicale Jean-Baptiste Salis Aérodrome de Cerny-la Ferté-Alais 91590 France tel:
01.64.57.55.85
Or visit their website at: http://www.ajbs.fr
Wednesday, November 1 2006
By Ryan on Wednesday, November 1 2006, 19:04
NEWS: The Pink Lady is no longer at Orly. Pending a new
perminant location, the pink lady is being stored at St Yan, (Saône et Loire),
France.
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Sunday, October 8 2006
By Ryan on Sunday, October 8 2006, 10:52
Briefing for the 8th Air Force's mission 935 was held at 6:00 AM on the
morning of April 9th, 1945.
Due to bad weather, however, the mission to bomb the Luftwaffe airfield at
Furstenfeldbruck, Germany that Monday morning, would be delayed...
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Sunday, October 1 2006
By Ryan on Sunday, October 1 2006, 21:28
Like so many European cities, Halberstadt's history is devided into two
periods: before and after "the bombing".
On Sunday April 8th 1945, the Pink Lady took off from polebrook airfield
shortly after breakfast, and Captain Jay H. Maish put her into a holding
pattern over the English coast while the entire bombing fleet would be
assembled (1)...
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Sunday, September 10 2006
By Ryan on Sunday, September 10 2006, 20:42 - Royan
On Saturday April 14th, 1945, the Pink Lady participated in what would be
the first day of a two-day bombing of the city of Royan and the surrounding
area, in an attempt to dislodge the occupying German force... (Read a first-hand account of the
bombing)
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Friday, September 8 2006
By Ryan on Friday, September 8 2006, 13:48
I have managed to pull together a brief history of the Pink Lady from all
the sources I have used up to the present. This history expands on what I
already wrote in the Wikipedia article...
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Friday, September 1 2006
By Ryan on Friday, September 1 2006, 21:47
Upon looking at the B-17 entry in Wikipedia, I noticed, to my dismay, the absence of our
beloved 48846! Of course the usual stars were there (Memphis Belle, Liberty
Belle, Nine-O-Nine, Sally B, etc...) but the Pink Lady was not on the list of
"Notable B-17s"...
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Monday, August 28 2006
By Ryan on Monday, August 28 2006, 23:06
Below is the actual control panel of the Pink Lady: 
I will begin a thread that will present
photographic documentation that I come across that can be commented on. To
begin with, below is a photo I found while researching the 511th Squadron in
which you can see the nose and crew of the Pink Lady when stationed in
Polebrook...
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Sunday, August 27 2006
By Ryan on Sunday, August 27 2006, 14:51
I have compiled a very rough list of the various painting schemes and tail
numbers associated with The Pink Lady from 1945 to Today, which I will present
below of review and comments. This list will mainly serve as my starting point,
as it provides me with a visible chronology of the Pink Lady, to which I may in
turn place events...
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Thursday, August 24 2006
By Ryan on Thursday, August 24 2006, 19:52
Today's log entry has absolutely nothing to do with the Pink Lady aircraft.
Rather, I though it might interest some of you to read about some early
technical aspects regarding the creation of this website...
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