Guestbook Entry (msg id: 636)
I am trying to locate information about Robert S. Johnson. I am wondering if he is still alive today, or what year he passed away. Please email me if you know. I have a photo of him (from 1944) at my web page if you are interested.
Posted By: John Valdefierro
(valdefierro@hotmail.com)
on 04/13/1999 9:11:30 PM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 635)
Are there any WWII fighter pilots out there who could send me there authograph? I have a few but like to start a collection and would be very happy if you would take the trouble. Many thanks! Fred Dijkstra Uranuslaan 32 1562 XA Krommenie HOLLAND
Posted By: Fred Dijkstra
(f.dijkstra)
on 04/07/1999 6:14:49 PM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 634)
My interest is with the 56th Fighter Group known as ’Zemkes Wolf Pack’ flying P47C’s & D’s, that were based at Halesworth Airfield, England in 1944. I am trying to add a bit more historical interest to my web pages on Holton Hall Park where the airmen had their quarters, and would welcome any input. For anyone who was based there and is interested. I had some maps showing the airfield at that time scanned. I have combined two of the maps to a large composite. This is downloadable as a ’zip’ file from my website at http://www.batesuk.freeserve.co.uk/ I also made a plan of Holton Hall Park, with how it was in 1944 shown in green, and how it is now shown in red. This can be viewed on my website, and again can be downloaded as a ’zip’. The map of the airfield is quite large scanned at 500 bits/inch, it is 2ft wide. It should really be printed larger than actual to be able to view the detail properly.
Posted By: Martin Bates
(martin_batesuk.hotmail.com)
on 04/06/1999 6:28:23 AM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 633)
looking for info/picts on lt. jack berger, 511th FS,405FG ww2. thanks, braxton
Posted By: braxton bradford
(braxbrad@yahoo.com)
on 04/05/1999 6:59:53 AM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 632)
I love your page and I am wondering if I can Put a link from my page to yours and yours to mine. See my site is going to be (I am converting it from a different topic) strickly on WWII war birds and I need someone to come to my site. Thanks again and good uck on your page!!!!
Posted By: Bob Jones
(abc__124@hotmail.com)
on 04/02/1999 9:39:57 PM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 631)
My uncle was 1Lt Anthony R. Rosatone (called Tony or Rosey). He was in the 353rd FG, 352nd FS flying out of Raydon England form July 1944 to January 18, 1945 when he was listed as MIA. He flew both the P-47 and P-51. Would love to find anyone who knew him. Please contact me if you have any ideas. Thanks!
Posted By: Lou Rosatone
(lou_rosa@msn.com)
on 03/29/1999 4:01:13 PM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 630)
Hello. My father Keith C. Lovell flew Jugs during the war. He was a transition and aerial gunnery Instructor with the 13th FS, 3rd Fighter command, out of Venice Army Air Field, Florida from late ’43 to late ‘44. Most of which was in P-47G’s and early D’s. In late ‘44 he joined the newly forming 414th FG at Selfridge Field and Bluethenthal field, and shipped out to Iwo in the early ‘45. He flew the P-47Ns on missions from there for a few months with the 437th, 456th, and 413th FS. After hostilities, he went to Clark field with the group until about mid ‘46, when he came home. Dad continued to fly privately though out his life, held various flying and aviation jobs, and instilled a love of flying (I’m a private pilot) and aviation history, especially of WW2, in me as well. He flew all the popular fighters of WW2 at one time or another and said they all had strengths and weaknesses, but if you forced him to pick one, his choice was always the Jug. Dad left us in ’89. My indulgence in R/C scale model aircraft has allowed me to fly numerous small scale versions of the T-bolt over the years and am currently working on a 5th scale, 103 inch wing span version. Can’t get enough of those Jugs. I would appreciate any info regarding the P-47 Advocates group or any relatives organization associated with the Thunderbolt Pilots Association. And finally, to all of you surviving Jug pilots, your contemporaries, living and departed, in other Service branches and all ranks, I send my sincerest gratitude for the sacrifices you made and the responsibilities you shouldered during the war. Very few people today realize how much the collective actions of your generation, truly defined the future of our civilization. God Bless. Craig Lovell
Posted By: Craig Lovell
(bdla@mailbag.com)
on 03/26/1999 5:18:00 PM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 629)
I WAS A CONTROL TOWER OPERATOR WITH THE 365TH FB GROUP 9TH AF. I REALLY ENJOYED READING THE COMMENTS ON YOUR SITE. WAS ABLE TO HELP SOME. WAS ALSO WITH THE 405TH FOR A SHORT TIME IN CHRISTCHURCH UNTIL THE INVASION WHEN TRANSFERED TO THE 365TH. FINISHED THE WAR AT FRITZLAR GERMANY.
Posted By: OWEN MONETTE
(MONETTE@DATASYNC.COM)
on 03/26/1999 12:29:33 PM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 628)
My uncle Glenn E Mayberry was a P-47 pilot with the 365th fighter group 388th squadron 9th Air Force in Europe in WWII I would like to correspond with someone who knew him or was in that group.
Posted By: Sid Mayberry
(lp16@televar.com)
on 03/26/1999 10:20:36 AM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 627)
My grandady flew the P-47 during WWII. He reached the title of ace and was a captain in WWII. Later on during WWII he was called back to the U.S. to test pilot the P-38 lighting.He survived WWII and lived to be 72 years old and died of a heart attack.I am looking for ways to look up his records and if anyone has any suggestions please contact me.
Posted By: THOMAS
(hegmannavy@aol.com)
on 03/23/1999 8:16:44 PM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 626)
My grandfather flew a P-47 during the war. Although I do not know much about what he did. He only tells me bits and pieces of his stories, all I know is that he flew with the Allied Air Tactics Group and that he was stationed at a place I think was called Beakon hill, in England, but I’m not sure. I love the P-47 and I love to hear my grandad tell me some of his stories about his plane. If anyone has ever heard of this or something similar please fill free to E-mail me. thanks.
Posted By: Cody Gill
(codyg_60@yahoo.com)
on 03/22/1999 3:22:31 AM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 625)
Looking for addresses of P-47 aces and I collect autographs of deceased aces.
Posted By: Kenneth Morvant
(kenneth111@worldnet.att.net)
on 03/17/1999 10:07:59 AM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 624)
My dad (Jim) was trained as a B-17 navigator but the war edned before he shipped out. His older brother (Frank) was career air force and flew a P-47 named ’The Flying Fish’ in the 78th fighter group out of Duxford, England. He was credited with one aerial victory, and trains and trucks too numerous to mention. He is mentioned in a book about the 78th called ’The Eagles of Duxford.’ The book is now out of print.
Posted By: Rob Fish
(rfish@burnsmcd.com)
on 03/16/1999 1:27:08 PM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 623)
I fly RC model airplanes; today I’m building a P47N the last of the list,I’d like to know some real color schema of the serie,perhaps southern Pacific
Posted By: Alberto Pinciroli
(Foton@way.com.ar)
on 03/14/1999 4:04:10 PM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 622)
Very interesting, I worked together with the members of the 32nd TFS ’WOLFHOUNDS’ at Soesterberg AFB in the Netherlands. During my service period the squadron was flying the F-15 Eagle, but during the WW II they were flying the P-47. I have deep respect for the WW II vets, thanks to them I (we) live in a free Europe.
Posted By: mario warnaar
(mwarnaar@gironet.nl)
on 03/13/1999 11:40:45 AM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 621)
Just finished reading Victor Tannehill’s new book, ’First TACAF’,About a Provisional Air Force cobbled together in what was thought to be a less sensitive part of the front lines moving through France, the southern end. Four P-47 Groups, B-26’s, Reccie, nightfighters and observation elements were a part of this kind of ’bastard’ outfit at the start. But by the time it was over the 1st Tac was a major part of the operations that swept through the Colmar pocket, broke through the Seigfried LIne, and decimated German forces before they could retreat across the Rhine. In the process the Jugs helped drive off the Krauts at the Bulge, the Rhine-Moselle Triangle, and pushed them to Munich when Eisenhower diverted the main thrust from Berlin. What makes this booka lot different from the ’glory in the skies, scarf blowing in the slipstream’ kind of books is the extensive coverage of the ground story and how the air groups interacted. If you were there, as I was for 100 missions with the 358th ’Orangetails’ Group, the stories and pix of the mud, heavy snow, bad-weather missions, the never-ending exhaustion and intensity of combat, flax and frayed-nerves is all too-real. What the book does for the casual reader is present the down-to-earth story of a wonderful airplane that was such a vital part of the ground soldier’s successes. Anyone who has an interest in the P-47 Thunderbolt will find out why anyone they know who was a tanker or infantryman can’t say enough about this great fighting machine, and why just about any German looking up into the Western skies had such fear and hatred towards the ’Jabo’s’. This book may give you a new dimension about an airplane that, unfortunately, was too down and dirty at it’s job, that it and glamour press coverage never coincided. Fortunately, those of us who flew it, didn’t give a damn--we knew what we had! Cheers!
Posted By: Jim Hall
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on 03/12/1999 11:24:58 AM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 620)
The JUG is my favorite WW2 aircraft. Great to see all the stuff on this site. Would love to see a real Thunderbolt up close. Does anyone know if there will be one at any of the air shows in the southeast in the not to distant future?
Posted By: shelley reid
(www.caroshell@wctel.net)
on 03/09/1999 9:36:59 PM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 619)
I need any photo and information concerning P47D-27-RE S/N-42-26860 ’Angie’ from the 512th FS/406th FG thanks.
Posted By: Bruno C. Mary
(www.Bruno72401@Aol.com)
on 02/26/1999 9:40:25 PM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 618)
I need any photo and information concerning P47D-27-RE S/N-42-26860 ’Angie’ from the 512th FS/406th FG thanks.
Posted By: Bruno C. Mary
(www.Bruno72401@Aol.com)
on 02/26/1999 9:11:58 PM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 617)
Great to see other people who share my love affair with the P-47.I dedicate much of my time to learning about the airplane and the men who flew it.I read many books on the subject and build award winning models of them.Love the sight, keep it up!
Posted By: Michael Van Ert
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on 02/26/1999 3:21:02 PM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 616)
Great to see so much about WWII aircraft, I just love the oldtimers. I wish we could have some more of them in South Africa.
Posted By: Peter Besselsen
(9812776.Stud.CTU.MPE)
on 02/26/1999 6:11:57 AM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 615)
Never flew the P 47 or any wwii aircraft but I have a love affair with all of them J.C.Barton
Posted By: James C. Barton
(jbarton@pghnet``)
on 02/25/1999 6:03:28 AM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 614)
RECHERCHE RENSEIGNEMENTS SUR AVION ET MISSION DU PILOTE AMERICAIN MORT LE 14.07.1943 A MON VILLAGE EN FRANCE WARD K WORTMAN 0.885416 JACKSON R WORTMAN EAST 306 19th SPOKANE WASH MERCI
Posted By: BEN PIERRE FRANCE
(BEN Pier @ AOL.COM)
on 02/21/1999 4:08:47 PM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 613)
RECHERCHE RENSEIGNEMENTS SUR AVION ET MISSION DU PILOTE AMERICAIN MORT LE 14.07.1943 A MON VILLAGE WARD K WORTMAN 0.885416 JACKSON WORTMAN EAST 306 19th SPOKANE WASH MERCI
Posted By: BEN PIERRE
(BEN Pier @ AOL.COM)
on 02/21/1999 4:07:28 PM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 612)
RECHERCHE RENSEIGNEMENTS SUR AVION ET MISSION DU PILOTE AMERICAIN MORT LE 14.07.1943 A MON VILLAGE WARD K WORTMAN 0.885416 JACKSON WORTMAN EAST 306 19th SPOKANE WASH MERCI
Posted By: BEN PIERRE
(BEN Pier @ AOL.COM)
on 02/21/1999 4:05:59 PM EST
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