I think your efforts to incorporate B0B into the museum are noble. Looking back I consider myself fortunate and one of the last Marines to work on B0B while with VMGR-252 just before it was transfered to Pax River in 2003 (I think). In approximately 2001 or 2002 B0B came back from depot maintenance with some new skin, a fresh paint job and best of all a Pegasus with a cluster of 2-5-2 stars encircling it was emblazoned on the vertical stab. It was the closest thing to WWII nose art we were going to get. From an avionics standpoint, it was a pretty good bird. ICS alway give us fits but considering the locations of the junction boxes and the beatings the cords took it was to be expected. I was fond enough of the aircraft that I had a lithograph commission with the paint job. I've had it stowed away for 20 years while I bounced around in the Corps. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
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I think your efforts to incorporate B0B into the museum are noble. Looking back I consider myself fortunate and one of the last Marines to work on B0B while with VMGR-252 just before it was transfered to Pax River in 2003 (I think). In approximately 2001 or 2002 B0B came back from depot maintenance with some new skin, a fresh paint job and best of all a Pegasus with a cluster of 2-5-2 stars encircling it was emblazoned on the vertical stab. It was the closest thing to WWII nose art we were going to get. From an avionics standpoint, it was a pretty good bird. ICS alway give us fits but considering the locations of the junction boxes and the beatings the cords took it was to be expected. I was fond enough of the aircraft that I had a lithograph commission with the paint job. I've had it stowed away for 20 years while I bounced around in the Corps. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
Charles Westall
First Sergeant
USMC(Ret)