Need photos of 88 squadron Bostons - post invasion

[Tony Whittingham]

Hello All,

does anyone have, or have access to photos of the 88 squadron Bostons when at Vitry en Artois, that they would be willing to share? I’m looking for aircraft and crew photos.

any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

TW

[Sydhuey]

Will see what I can find at home , at work at the moment and forgot my Boston portable hard drive, I have a couple but extremely rare, plenty of Boston III's up till D-day then almost nothing of Boston IV's till disbandment in Apr45.

There are quite a lot of 342 which shared Vitry en Artois (B-50) with 88 as they had their own photographer.

[Eric Mc]

I'm building a Boston III of 88 Squadron (old Airfix) at the moment. I found a photo of some taxying out for take off. it looks like it was taken soon before, on or just after D-Day as the aircraft have been converted to smoke laying duties. The picture is featured in the Warpaint book on the Boston. I'm building the kit as the Bostons looked when based at RAF Hartford Bridge (Blackbushe) so not quite the period you are interested in.

Edited September 25, 2019 by Eric Mc
Correction

[rossm]

There is one on p474 of 2TAF Vol3 captioned as at Vitry and a couple of "Beer is Best" on p256 of Vol2, not sure where.

[Carl V]

Tony:

I can let you have several photos if you care to PM me.

Carl

[Tony Whittingham]

On 9/26/2019 at 9:50 AM, Carl V said:

Tony:

I can let you have several photos if you care to PM me.

Carl

Thanks, @Carl V! Got them.