Dubar1 Posted January 1, 2009 Share #1 Posted January 1, 2009 I'm looking for any information on the trailers they use to pull the bomb loads up to the aircraft. I've seen pictures of several of them hooked togehter behind a tractor or jeep. Nomenclature, drawings, whatever I can find. I've tried to search the internet but if you don't know what it's called to begin with it's hard to get good data. Thanks, Bob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craig johnson Posted January 1, 2009 Share #2 Posted January 1, 2009 Look on G503 1/2 ton trailer section. There are numerous posts about bomb type trailers. http://g503.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=28&...296feeaa69d8540 Ive saved a few photos of trailers for sale. Think they were all on EBAY. http://handcartz.smugmug.com/gallery/1656841_JBeWM Not sure about these two http://handcartz.smugmug.com/gallery/4303799_EohsS Craig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bayonetman Posted January 1, 2009 Share #3 Posted January 1, 2009 Lets see if this will help you. These are from the Ordnance School publication OS 9-63 titled Handbook of Ordnance Material, dated June 1944 (2nd Edition). I know the first one is not a trailer, but it completes the set. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dubar1 Posted January 2, 2009 Author Share #4 Posted January 2, 2009 Thanks guys! Looks like the M5 trailer is the one I was thinking of, but it looks wider than I pictured. I recall seeing a line of trailers being pulled behind a vehicle and it appeared they were carrying a single bomb (therefore narrower, noy much wider than the bomb), but it may have been the angle of the photo or it may have been a RAF bomb trailer in use by the USAAF. I'll check all those links out too! Thanks again, Bob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Flick Posted January 2, 2009 Share #5 Posted January 2, 2009 A contemporary photo of the bomb wagons in use in the PTO. Regards, Charlie Flick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
316th FS 324th FG Posted January 2, 2009 Share #6 Posted January 2, 2009 Here are a couple of photos of bomb wagons in the 324th FG in the ETO. This is an M5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
316th FS 324th FG Posted January 2, 2009 Share #7 Posted January 2, 2009 And the second one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dubar1 Posted January 3, 2009 Author Share #8 Posted January 3, 2009 Thanks guys! Charlie, I think those are the carts I was thinking of. I see that is a photo of a USMC P-38 so maybe only the Navy used those small, single bomb carts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craig_pickrall Posted January 6, 2009 Share #9 Posted January 6, 2009 This is a B17 as it appears in LIFE Magazine of APR 6, 1942. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dubar1 Posted January 7, 2009 Author Share #10 Posted January 7, 2009 Thanks Craig! Pictures do speak volumes don't they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwb123 Posted January 8, 2009 Share #11 Posted January 8, 2009 In the pictures from LIFE, I like the flag on the bomb trailer... a little regulation niceity that seems to have been skipped in theater. Also, those bombs look like they have been painted a lighter color. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brandon_rss18 Posted January 9, 2009 Share #12 Posted January 9, 2009 Thanks guys! Charlie, I think those are the carts I was thinking of. I see that is a photo of a USMC P-38 so maybe only the Navy used those small, single bomb carts? The P-38 Lightning was strictly a Army Air Corps aircraft. They did fly cover for the marines in the PTO however, but only flown by AAC pilots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dubar1 Posted January 10, 2009 Author Share #13 Posted January 10, 2009 Brandon, LOL, I should have known that. Sometimes I don't see the obvious (forest for the trees thing). Here's a photo of a trailer I found on the internet, but I can't relocate the website I found it on (they also had a Navy MKIV trailer in their photos). It could very well be someone on this forum so please forgive me for not giving credit for the photo: I'd like to find the dimensions of this trailer if possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tdogchristy90 Posted November 8, 2021 Share #14 Posted November 8, 2021 Does anyone know if these bomb trailers and their history can be tracked by their serial numbers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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