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P47 Pilots Guestbook
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Welcome to the P47 Pilots Guestbook.
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 1762)
I am looking for anyone who may have know Robert(Bob) W. Perry. He flew the P-47 Thunderbolt in WWII and was born in 1922, however was grounded to the best of my knowlege for some misbehavior. I would love to talk to anyone who went through flight school with him or knew him during the war years. Please e-mail me if you have any information. I believe he was flying in Europe.
Posted By: Becky Crowe
(perrycrowe@hotmail.com)
on 06/25/2005 10:43:44 PM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 1761)
Great page! Looks like the definitive resource on this fantastic plane. I'm sure I'll spend some time here.
Check out my small contribution to WW2 history at the above address -- it's a day-by-day history of the war.
Posted By: David H Lippman
(dhlippman@juno.com)
on 06/17/2005 11:46:22 AM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 1760)
I posted a message last year about my dad, A.J. LoCelso, who flew a P-47 in WWII. He was with "Lee's Lieutenants" 86th Fighter Group; the name of one plane was "Miss Anne" #74. Anyone know him, please e-mail me. Tks
Posted By: Dawn LoCelso
(dawnlc@shaw.ca)
on 06/14/2005 10:50:31 AM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 1759)
Would be interested in talking with those who served with the 314th Fighter Squadron of the 324th Fighter Group in 1944
Posted By: Joseph J. Martanovic
(Joseph.Martanovic@colliersom.com)
on 06/08/2005 5:04:39 PM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 1758)
I was born in March of 1946 and have heard many stories about the Thunderbolt. My father was an armorer with the 56th FG, 8th AF. I'm really glad to have found your sight and have read most of its content. Dad is now 85 years old and is getting weaker each day. His generation is truly special and the best example of what we can be as people and as a nation. God bless them all.
Posted By: Woody Giles
(wgiles@mindspring)
on 05/27/2005 2:19:43 PM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 1757)
Born in 1942, I am too young to remember very much that happened between 1942 and 1945, except that where I lived in East Farmingdale, I can still remember flights of new JUGS departing Republic, flying directly over our house.
My father worked for Republic from 1940 until 1977, and saw not only the advent of the P-47, but also the F-84, F-105, and A-10. But the P-47 was and continues to be the leader in a great tradition of highly reliable workhorse aircraft built by the people of Republic Aviation.
Posted By: Jim Colwell
(jenjay1965@aol.com)
on 05/26/2005 6:24:48 PM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 1756)
To all my new friends all over the world made by e-mail this past year, it has been great knowing you. If you wish to contact me for the next several months it will have to be by snail mail to: Frank Lewis, l4 Schoppee Pt. Rd., Roque Bluffs, ME 04654, 207-255-3056. I will be tickled to talk fighter talk and B-52 talk. Have a wonderful summer, guys and gals. Best wishes, Frank Lewis.
Posted By: Frank Lewis
(femtl@earthlink.net)
on 05/18/2005 9:03:49 PM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 1755)
Hi
I hope you can help. We live on Bisterne Farm near where the ALG was constructed. My husband works for the farm and we are both very interested in the history of the airfield. Any information or photos you can send me would be great, especially if you have any info relating to the brick fireplace built in the woods near Sandford where the pilots were billeted. The fireplace is still there and to commemorate the 60th aniversary of VE day we took our children to the fireplace and cleaned it out and cooked sausages and beans. I have found a few cannon shell whilst digging in the garden and pieces of the runway still prop up the hedgerow locally.
Many thanks
PJB
Posted By: Paula Button
(pjb@1066ad.com)
on 05/10/2005 5:55:59 PM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 1754)
"What a great experience at the Seattle 2005 P-47 re-union"
It was nothing less than great to meet the Pilots and thier wives of the "Greatest Generation". Hats off to all of you and those who put this together.
Posted By: Greg Pierce, President 8th AFHS - Washington State
(eighthafpierce@yahoo.com)
on 05/09/2005 2:48:49 PM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 1753)
Reference Guestbook message # l605, I urge any pilot of the 406th GP, 5l2th Squadron to contact Eugene Budnik who wants
to know of his grandfather's Jug experiences who was also Eugene Budnik of that squadron. As time runs out on all of us, we should take the time to get to know the descendents of our buddies in combat. You could also contact Budnik's son, Bob, in Alaska, rbudnik@mtaonline.net Frank Lewis, 5l4th.
Posted By: Frank Lewis
(femtl@earthlink.net)
on 05/07/2005 7:30:22 PM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 1752)
I'm building a model of and presenting a PowerPoint on the P-47 for a JROTC project at my highschool. From my research, it sounds like a great plane and it's been very interesting learning about it. This website was informative and a big help.
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on 05/02/2005 11:19:54 PM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 1751)
My dad "Edward A. Reisman" worked in Public Relations at Republic Aviation during World War II. I have some of his photos from those days (including photos of P47 Thunderbolts and Republic Field). Does anyone remember him?
Posted By: Edward A. Reisman, Jr.
(edward.reisman@ttb.gov)
on 04/25/2005 9:39:55 AM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 1750)
Hello! Does anybody recognize the name, "Eugene Joseph Budnik?" That is my grandfather's name as well as mine. He flew P-47s in Europe during WWII. I don't know what unit he was in exactly, just thought it would be interestting if anybody recognized the name. Feel free to email me.
Posted By: Eugene J. Budnik
(eugene.budnik@seymourjohnson.af.mil)
on 04/22/2005 11:44:09 AM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 1749)
I served in Patton's Third Army in the ETO from July 1944 until the end of the war in 1945 with the 119th AAA Gun Bn. I recently ran across a photo I took in the vicinity of Thionville, France sometime in 1944 of a crashed-landed P-47 after what appears to be a pancake landing. The plane is intact with extended flaps and damaged prop. The designation on the fuselage is V, and W3. The tail number appears to be 227319. From the photo it looks like the pilot survived. I would be happy to forward this photo to anyone interested - hopefully the surviving pilot. I might like to add, our battalion did not shoot down this airplane.
Posted By: Howard Simon
(SimonSezz@aol.com)
on 04/18/2005 3:01:21 AM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 1748)
The Story of a P-47D Fighter Pilot
Howard Sumner was born on 12 November 1924, in a stone farmhouse about three miles east of Lyle, KS. His parents are Robert C. and Gracie Mae.
Howard attended a country grade school in the Lyle area. Later he attended and graduated in 1942 from Norcatur High School.
Howard wanted to enlist in the service when World War II started, but he was only seventeen at the time. One Howard turned eighteen he enlisted. At that time the Air Force was a branch of the Army. Howard was stationed at Pisa, Italy and was in the service for three years.
Howard was a pilot in the Air Force and flew a P-47D fighter plane. The plane was made in the republic. Its maximum speed was 356 miles per hour. Its takeoff weight was 19,400 pounds. While “empty” the plane weighed ten thousand pounds. The planes’ wingspan was forty feet, nine inches, and three quarters. The plane was equipped with two bombs, machine guns, and a belly tank for fuel. Today, P-47D’s can be found today at the Smithsonian Institute.
While in the service, Howard flew seventy-nine missions; his last flight in combat was flown on 1 May 1945. Howard received an Air Medal and four clusters. Howard was a Lieutenant and Flight Leader.
Howard tells, while being a flight leader, he had a “green” pilot going on a mission flight with him. Howard told this “green” pilot---“Don’t lose sight of me, I won’t come back to get you.” The flight was a success and the rookie pilot never lost Howard. Later the rookie told Howard that he didn’t think Howard was very nice.
During the three years that Howard was in the service he only got to come home once and only for a short stay, which was only for one day. Howard said he and his father stayed up all night and talked. The next day Howard had to go back.
Howard has many books, pictures, and models of the plane he flew. When asking Howard what it was like to be in the service he replied, “I’m very proud to have been a Fighter Pilot and a Flight Leader in World War II.”
While in the service Howard explained how he had made buddies for life. In June a war buddy of Howard’s is coming to Kansas and from there they both plan to travel to Albuquerque, New Mexico for a World War II reunion. Can you imagine being there and listening to all of the interesting war stories? Most of these men are in their eighties and if the stories aren’t captured now, they will be lost forever.
Posted By: Melinda (M.J.) Dempewolf
(mjdempewolf@hotmail.com)
on 04/11/2005 10:54:55 PM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 1747)
I was ten years old when my Dad bought me a shinning P-47 Thunderbolt with alcohol piston engine.Since that event I knew how important was "the Jug" in my life.Always I have followed any movie,any book,stamp or other thing about the plane and his braves pilots.I'm now a Mechanical Engineer with 52 years old and I continue admiring you like a human group capable to feel that special love for the machine and all the glories experiences that "the Jug" leave in yours hearts forever. Is a honor for me to can write some words to so special folks.Carlos
PS:When I play with my sons "The combat flight simulator", the P-47 is my favorite weapon.
Posted By: Carlos
(gvc999@hotmail.com)
on 04/08/2005 1:37:40 AM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 1746)
You have a great page! I am the President of the Van Lear,
KY Historical Society, Inc. In 1948, a distressed pilot
parachuted into my community from a crippled P-47. The pilot was Lt.Harry T.Stewart, Jr. Stewart is a Tuskegee Airman who flew as one of the famoust,"Red Tails" in WWII.
Harry is given credit for having downed three Nazi 109's in
the skies over Europe. In 1949, he was one of a team of three pilots who won the very first USAF Fighter Gunnery
Competition at Las Vegas, NV.
LTC Harry T. Stewart, Jr. USAF (ret.) will be the Guest of
Honor for the 20th Annual Van Lear Town Celebration. For
additional information call: (606) 789 - 8540 or email the
above address.
Thank you,
Danny
Posted By: Danny K. Blevins
(admin@vanlear.org)
on 04/03/2005 12:30:20 PM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 1745)
Capt. Roy L. Barker 362FG 377FS KIA 19 Jan 1945
Anyone left that was on that mission???
Anyone with any photos
Posted By: John Barker Frisk
(jffrisk@teamtetra.net)
on 03/29/2005 11:47:30 PM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 1744)
The Mississippi Chapter of the Eighth Air Force Historical society is trying to locate former members of the 8AF so if you or a relative were involved please contact:
Bettye D. Jackson
15 County Road 126
Oxford, MS 38665
Posted By: Paul Patist
(paulpatist@hotmail.com)
on 03/27/2005 10:23:10 AM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 1743)
I fell in love with the P47 when I read Richard Johnson's book P-47 Thunderbolt. I found his story of his fighter group and his experiences a great recapturing of the events during that timeframe. The fact that his aircraft took the beating that it did and he was able to survive it, is what has always impressed me about the aircraft. The size speed and shear firepower has had me convinced for years that it was the best fighter that we produced for WWII. My hats off to all of you who had the chance to pilot that plane.
Posted By: K. Schreur
(schreur@optonline.net)
on 03/19/2005 8:00:27 PM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 1742)
I recently interviewed Howard Sumner for my American History Project. It was so interesting! I loved every minute of it.
Posted By: M.J. Dempewolf
(mjdempewolf@hotmail.com)
on 03/13/2005 12:13:25 PM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 1741)
My dad, Charles H. Maehrlein, flew with the 358th Fighter Squadron/366th Fighter Group from March 1944- Feb. 1945. If there is anyone out there that would like to contact me regarding that period of time and that Squadron I would really appreciate it...My dad just recently received his DFC, He served in the 9th Air Force and was stationed in England, France, Appinines...Hope I hear from some of you pilots...I am very interested in the history of the "Jug" pilots...
Posted By: Marilyn Maehrlein-Arp
(superteddy46@msn.com)
on 03/05/2005 12:04:25 PM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 1740)
My Dad, Duane Ash, flew with the 404th FG, 507thFS, Winkton, found your site interesting, I still have a pint with him once a week, he just turned 86!
Posted By: Carl Ash
(ashcarl@aol.com)
on 02/28/2005 4:44:15 AM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 1739)
Americans RAF RCAF WWII
I am researching U.S. citizens who served with the RAF and RCAF during WWII.
After Pearl Harbor, Many would transfer to the USAAF and fly the P-47, etc.
Any names/information would be appreciated.
Please contact: wpf13@hotmail.com
Posted By: Wally P. Fydenchuk
(wpf13@hotmail.com)
on 02/22/2005 6:24:39 PM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 1738)
Wonderful site, congratulation I do some search on the
" crash site " for the plane's American shot down in area
of BRITTANY Thank you for your great Site Jean-Paul
Posted By: Jean Paul Favrais
(jeanpaulfavrais1@aol.com)
on 02/21/2005 5:05:27 PM EST
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