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P47 Pilots Biographies, Last Name Starting With "I"
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Pilot Name
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Biography Summary
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Carl A. Iavelli
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....I remember only 1 1/2 swings of the
chute before hitting the snow on heels and
back in a vacant lot and was immediately
captured by 2 German Soldiers. On Jan. 23
started the trip to Germany by Army truck
and was strafed by 2 Thunderbolts the first
morning, 2 passes each, wounding my guard,
and finished the trip by bus and train at night....
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Jacki M. Ilfrey
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He made first mass flight of Fighter Planes
to England, Boleoro Mission, July '42. Flew
another long over water hop to N. Africa for
the invasion, and became first ace in a P-38.
He was an instructor pilot in P47's at
Westover in 1943, B&D models, 322nd
squadron 326th Group. Had no Combat time
in them.
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Ray Ilich
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He was based at Caguari
Sadenia, flying P-39's. He flew anti-sub
patrol protecting ship convoys in the Mediterrarian Sea, while moving up the west coast of Italy behind the 5th Army advances. The
346th was re-equipped with P-47's and the
mission changed to interdiction in support of
"operation strangle" and the 5th Army. He
flew 102 missions destroying ammunition
depots, power stations, bridges, trains, tunnels, and railways.
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Harold J. Ingley
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Graduated with 44-B
after completing training in PT-13, BT-13,
AT-6, 20 hrs. in a P-40 and the required 80
or so in the P-51. Sent overseas to Italy and
Corsica, joined with the Jug Pilots of the
86th Fighter Bomber Group 526th Squadron, after 10 hrs. training in the P-47 , was in combat with the invasion of Southern
France.
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Max Itzkowitz
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Assigned to the 58th Fighter Group,
311th Squadron, Max flew among the first
production Thunderbolts delivered to Westover AFB, Springfield, Mass. in January
1943. His entire wartime service was exclusively in P-47 s, logging about 1000 hours in
the jug, of which about 700 hours was
combat time.
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Norman M. Iverson
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After training in Hawaii he was sent with others as a replacement to the 318th Fighter Group stationed at Saipan in the Mariana's; the 318th Fighter Group P47N were transferred to Ie Shima where they flew escort for the big boys who were in B29's, B24's and on occasions the
smaller bomber fleets and were also used for
skip bombing, dive bombing, strafing and
napalm, ground work along the China Coast,
Korea, Kyusha and Honshu.
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Jesse P. Ivey
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Assigned, New York Air Defense Command, Bradley Field, Conn., and then to 340th Squadron, 348th Fighter Group, the second Group to fly P-47's at Westover Field, Mass. Departed U.S. April 1943 for New Guinea (5th Air Force). Flew
87 missions of all kinds from New Guinea,
Wakde, Biak, and then to Leyte for D-Day
plus 2. On to Luzon. As Group Operation
Officer, was in charge of all fighter operations covering landing of Marines and Army on New Britain.
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