Guestbook Entry (msg id: 968)
Anyone have information on reunions for the 5th FIS / 52nd Fighter Group (’Spitten Kittens)?
Posted By: EC
(sfera@sprynet.com)
on 05/07/2000 8:40:56 PM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 967)
I just wanted to put in a plug for a friend of mine. Robert (’Thundrbolt Bob’) St. Vincent is an aviation artist who over the last few years has done several P-47 paintings for Assoc. members. I, and the many satisfied members can vouch for the quality of his work. Bob did the original of the ’High Speed Low Pass’ print that was made available to members years ago. If any of you ex Jug-Jockies are interested, Bob can be reached at (818) 362-8190. He does not own a computer, so unfortunately has no email address.
Posted By: JIM GUIGNARD
(JGUIGNARD@AOL.COM)
on 05/07/2000 9:36:43 AM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 966)
GREAT SITE! Would like to contact anyone who may have known Lt. Harold Nussman. Only info I know is he was flying P-47’s out of England in 1943 and was shot down over the continent around the middle of 1944. Have picture of him with his plane but does not show tail, nose, or much wing so can not ID his Squadron. Was my mothers cousin. Need info for family record.
Posted By: David Broadway
(eagle6_28001@yahoo.com)
on 05/05/2000 12:04:42 AM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 965)
I am presently building a Giant Scale Radio controled model of the P-47. I plan on modeling this project after TarHeel Hal but I would certainly be interested in any interesting or unusual paint schemes used during WW11. Any suggestions or ideas would be appreciated. Please e-mail me. I also want to thank all of you who helped make America the country it is by your service and sacrafice.
Posted By: Rolland Roberts
(rrobe@provide.net)
on 05/04/2000 12:05:13 AM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 964)
Looking for information and photographs of aircraft named Arkansas Traveler flown by Paul P. Douglas of 368th grp, and Dewey newhart of the 353rd. Interested in info on these men and any aircraft nmaed or marked about Arkansas. Please contact me.
Posted By: hugh l. mills
(hmills16@aol.com)
on 05/02/2000 10:54:44 PM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 963)
I just want to say thank you. What your generation did made this country the world leader it is today. I’m 26, and I know my generation seems to take your sacrifices for granted. I regret that, but the sacrifices you all made helped pave a road for the success of future generations. Please know that some of us will be forever thankful for what the WWII veterans did. Thank you...
Posted By: Brad
(bstrieg@yahoo.com)
on 05/02/2000 4:57:37 PM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 962)
My brother John W. Haun flew the ’Jug’ for 98 missions with the 316th Sqdn, 324 Ftr Grp... He got a 109 and a 262... I flew a Mustang...We’ve had many argumnets over the merits of both... I was lucky. I graduated too late for combat.. I think I’d rather have had the big old Jug... It could and did take a licking and come home!
Posted By: Robert L. Haun
(rlh001@aol.com)
on 05/01/2000 5:45:31 PM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 961)
While growing up in Dayton Ohio, during the 30’s, 40’s & 50’s I have always thought the P-47 was the best. I still do to this day. I’ve met several of the worlds finest combat pilots who have flown these battle proven birds in battle, on all fronts. One of the most famous was R.S. ’Bob’ Johnson in 1980 at the CAF AIRSHO, in Harlingen TX. Many people do not remember that the Old Patterson Field, now Wright-Patterson AFB, in Dayton, was a Fighter Pilot Training Base for Thunderbolts and Lightnings. While Wright Field did some P-40 Pilot Training. At a time the Spam Can Fifty one wasn’t even in service yet. Never a day ever went by that we Kids didn’t see the mighty Thunderbolt or a Lightning fly over. So here is my personal Tribute to all who built, maintained, test flew, and flew these beautiful old machines. THANK YOU ALL.
Posted By: Roy Downing
(Castoffs@sprintmail.com)
on 05/01/2000 7:04:15 AM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 960)
I am happy for knowing of the so much people’s existence dedicated to homage a time of intense fight, and also, it plans it fascinating machine that is the P-47. Brazilian Air Force (FAB) it also used the P-47 in WWII, in the version D, in the Italian theater, integrating 350th Fighter Squadron, 12th USAAF Air Force. They were called Jambock Squadron ’. Visit the site ’ http://mat.ufrgs.br/~rudnei/FAB / ’ to know a little on these deadly ones P-47D in colors non Americans.
Posted By: Alessandro Borges
(AOborges@hotmail.com)
on 05/01/2000 1:16:19 AM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 959)
I’ve been a student air combat all my life. I write mostly historical articles about aces for combatsim.com online. The site is one that deals in all types of combat simulators fo PC computers for the fantasy enjoyment of those that will never fly in combat. What I want to emphasize is that the P-47 WAS a tremendous plane but it was all the pilots and mechanics that made them live. The plane is just a bunch of metal, rubber & plastic without the human factor. Thanks for what you all did, guys.
Posted By: Jim Tittle
(Simdoktor@aol.com)
on 04/30/2000 1:03:15 PM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 958)
I was a crew chief from 1946 - 1949 . P-47n’s &th Air Force, 81st Ftr Gr.,92 ftr. Sqnd. Based at Wheeler Field.,Oahu Hawaii.I would like to make contact with anyony that was based there ..Joe
Posted By: Joseph H. Moore
(jmoore5513@aol.com)
on 04/28/2000 5:01:09 PM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 957)
Harry Bristol recomended this page to me,what a wonderful page so full of history,and memories.I’d like to say thank you to all ,who came home and to those that did not
Posted By: Maria K Heard
(boo@utech,net)
on 04/28/2000 1:32:41 AM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 956)
Dear Sirs, My father fought in Alsace along the Rhine. I want to know what was happening in the air at that time. I have a lot of info on the ground battles in the discussion area forum of the 36th infantry division website. I know the Neuff Brisach bridge was being bombed. My father’s company took some dazed Germans out of a pillbox close to the Rhine river - actually it was the Ill river W. of there. They had been hit by P-47’s. If you flew over Alsace, I’d like to hear from you. GregColmar@hotmail.com I also know some more about the results of the bombing etc.
Posted By: Greg Underwood
(GregColmar@hotmail.com)
on 04/26/2000 11:23:07 AM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 955)
My father flew P-47 LM-I (I think this is right) with the 56th in England. He has collected numerous things regarding the JUG but the one thing that has evaded him is a photo of the nose art of this plane. I’d love to get a copy of any photo that shows the nose art of this particular P-47. If you have a photo and can get me a copy, let me know -- I’ll pay all expenses. cherry@banjo.com
Posted By: Bob Cherry
(cherry@banjo.com)
on 04/25/2000 11:34:54 PM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 954)
I am looking for information on a P-47 pilot, William F. Cunningham. We graduated from Aloe Field, Victoria,TX, Class 44-E He was assigned to P-47 training at Pocatello, Idaho an I went to P-39 training at Victorville, CA. We corresponded for several months but after I was transferred to P-38 training at Ontario, we lost track of each other. I would appreciate any information anyone may have.
Posted By: Bob Sims
(gbsims@bellsouth.net)
on 04/25/2000 9:58:11 PM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 953)
I have a W.A.R. P-47 razorback I’m going to start flying around Alabama this month. I have flown it once but I did not like the paint job so i started over. the paint job is going in the markings of Robert S. Johnson which is silver with red on nose of cowl and a red rudder and the name will be ’Penrod And Sam’. I think he flew this plane in late 1944 but im not sure but i have a picture. When i get it back together I will get an air to air shot and post it on here. Kevin James
Posted By: K.L. James
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on 04/25/2000 12:18:48 PM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 952)
I am looking for information’s about a former pilot of the 366th FG 391st FS 1st Lt Hurlbut Byron A. O-695174 he became a POW the 31/12/1944 after made a belly landing in Belgium near the Luxembourg Border SE of St-Vith at 2H30PM he was flying a P-47D-28-RE number 44-20247 Code A8-S. Phil
Posted By: phil
(philippe.dufrasne@skynet.be)
on 04/25/2000 7:26:32 AM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 951)
A famous P47/P51, ace Major John T. Godfrey, was a resident of my hometown and was one of the reasons that I created the U.S. Fighter web site. Come on over and take a look around. I know you will like it.
Posted By: Dan Kane
(usfighter.tripod.com)
on 04/25/2000 1:09:18 AM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 950)
Help! Please! Building website on the 50th Fighter Group and its squadrons during WWII: the 10th, 81st and 313th Fighter Squadrons and I need alittle information. Need squadron COs names for the 10th, plus alittle history background on the 81st FS. Would really appreciate any and all help! I served with the 50th TFW at Hahn AB, West Germany, back in the early sixties, which is the focus of my web pages. Would like to include the wing’s history from WWII (Jugs), up to when the base closed in 1991 (F-16s). You can view what I have so far, by clicking on ’50th Fighter Group’ below. Please email me, if you can help. Again thank you! Tom Newton
Posted By: The 50th Fighter Group
(Hahn-50thAP-K9@webtv.net)
on 04/24/2000 10:18:23 AM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 949)
WRECKS & ACES: ’To identify & honor the WWII aviators who failed to survive their training at Trumbull Field, Groton (New London)CT. To document the humor and pathos in the daily routine at Trumbull.’ We need your stories. captdav@hotmail.com 1.860.449.8643
Posted By: Dave Allen
(captdav)
on 04/23/2000 9:04:21 PM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 948)
What a great web Site. It is truley exciting to read the stories of the men who served so bravely. I am a big fan of the Jug and am building a 1/8 scale RC model that I hope to have flying so. Living in Houston, i hope to take the model to the Lone Star Flight Museum in Galveston,TX and place it beside the Jug located at the museum. Keep up the great work with the web Site.
Posted By: Joseph V. Paster
(JosephVPaster@netzero.net)
on 04/23/2000 5:21:57 PM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 947)
Thanks to Bob Richards,have made a number of contacts from this website. Duxford was my home from Aug. ’43-’45. Flew Jug and P-51 a total of over 400 hrs. combat and many over 125 missions. Watch for my book ’Target Of Opportunity’.
Posted By: Dick Hewitt; 78th Ftr. Gr., 82nd Sqdn.
(rahew.com@juno.com)
on 04/23/2000 12:55:07 PM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 946)
I read with great interest the entries to your guestbook and was quite moved to hear the exploits of the P-47 and the men who flew them. I’m the proud son of a grunt who served under General Patton in Europe and reveled at his stories of the war. Like many of the entries to your guestbook, I too wish I would have asked Dad more about his time ’over there’ but the scars on his chest and back were a grim testament to what he and all those who served during the war went through. I’ve always been a WWII avaition buff and several years ago at an airshow, I came upon this huge hulk of an airplane which I immediately recognized as a ’jug’. I’ve been hooked on the P-47 ever since! What a gun platform this huge fighter must have been for the 8 .50 cal’s. protruding from it’s sturdy wings! Being the proud son of a vet, I would like to take time to remember all vets for their selfless service to their country-rest assured, your gallant efforts have not been forgotten. You are my heros in a day and time when heros are few and far between. Happy Easter to each and every vet, and especially to the ones who never made it home, may they rest in peace. To steal a slogan I saw on a Vietnam vets’ shirt, ’All gave some, but some gave all.’
Posted By: Jeff Grubb
(glassesguy@juno.com)
on 04/22/2000 10:02:44 PM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 945)
Member of the 356th Fighter Group 361st Fighter Squadron ground crew. Stationed in England at Martslesham Heath Air Drome. We first flew P-47 and then P-51 and was converting to B 17 to go to the Pacific but we were lucky the war ended.
Posted By: Adrian H. Hunt
(hunta@cswnet.com)
on 04/22/2000 9:51:18 PM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 944)
Member of the 356th Fighter Group 361st Fighter Squadron ground crew. Stationed in England at Martslesham Heath Air Drome. We first flew P-47 and then P-51 and was converting to B 17 to go to the Pacific but we were lucky the war ended.
Posted By: Adrian H. Hunt
(hunta@cswnet.com)
on 04/22/2000 9:49:13 PM EST
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