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SamJ · #1 12-19-2007, 05:32 PM

Hudson plant near the end of WWII...

stateline · #2 12-19-2007, 08:10 PM

All-Right !!! are they building Hudson jets ??

Browniepetersen · #3 12-19-2007, 08:25 PM

Love everything about that photo. It is great!!! By the way, for the fans of modern air war birds... We (USA) did not have a jet war plane ready for combat in WWII. Our first combat jet fighters saw action in Korea. With that said, we must have someone in our Forum that can identify the plane being built? The Air Force was flying F-86's and F-100's when I joined up.

BJ__TN · #4 12-19-2007, 08:57 PM

Didn't HUDSON do some work on a bomber? Looks like a rear gunner's pod to me. I'm not old enough to remember, since I arrived just as Korean war started. I do like the HUDSON shirt though!
Bob

stateline · #5 12-19-2007, 09:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Browniepetersen

Love everything about that photo. It is great!!! By the way, for the fans of modern air war birds... We (USA) did not have a jet war plane ready for combat in WWII. Our first combat jet fighters saw action in Korea. With that said, we must have someone in our Forum that can identify the plane being built? The Air Force was flying F-86's and F-100's when I joined up.

Hudson jets - my attempt at a little humor , Im not that young!!

mars55 · #6 12-19-2007, 10:09 PM

Well, there was one Hudson built during World War II. The Lockheed Hudson light bomber and coastal reconnaissance aircraft. It was mainly used by the British. It was used in small numbers by the U.S. Navy as the PBO and by the U.S. Air Force as the A28 and A29.

PaceRacer50 · #7 12-20-2007, 03:46 AM

I believe its the tail gunner's section for the Mighty B-29 SuperFortress,
My Dad's bomber during the war.
PaceRacer50

46HudsonPU · #8 12-20-2007, 04:43 AM

Well, they put the 'right' person in the foreground, wearing the 'right' t-shirt... Looks like she may have been the only person wearing one -

Gotta love those 'bumpy' Hudson logos...

SamJ · #9 12-20-2007, 07:28 AM

Hudson built some components of the P-38 Lightning during the War. There is some info about this in the May/June 2007 issue of WTN. However, my understanding is that they only built wing sections.

46HudsonPU · #10 12-20-2007, 07:59 AM

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Originally Posted by SamJ

Hudson built some components of the P-38 Lightning during the War. There is some info about this in the May/June 2007 issue of WTN. However, my understanding is that they only built wing sections.

Went back and checked the photos - They still don't look like 'wings' to me (and I'm not talking about the 'bumps'... LOL!).

Could it just be a 'nice' coincidence that she happened to be wearing that t-shirt when the photo was taken?

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