George C Waldschmidt

Military
media-13429.jpeg UPL 13429 The Podington "Big Picture" on display at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford.

This piece of "wall-art" represents a B-17 of the 92nd Bomb Group. United States Eighth Air Force. The 92nd was the oldest group in the Eighth Air Force having been the first group to make a non-stop crossing of the Atlantic to the UK in August 1942.

This Picture was removed from a hut at the Podington site in October 1989 by the Eighth Wall Art Conservation Society with the assistance of the USAF Europe. After the closure of Podington in 1946 the airfield was returned to agricultural use and the hut converted into a pig sty. It is probably for this reason that the picture survived.

Originally painted by S/Sgt Waldschmidt.

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Object Number - UPL 13429 - The Podington "Big Picture" on display at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford. This piece of "wall-art" represents a B-17 of the 92nd Bomb Group....

Waldschmidt painted 'The Big Wall' a mural depicting a B-17 Flying Fortress of the 92rd Bomb Group. The mural was previously inside a hut at Podington, but was moved to IWM Duxford in 1989.

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The insignia of the 92nd Bomb Group.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

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News Report on The Big Wall

IWM correspondence with Waldschmidt's son in 2011.

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