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P47 Pilots Guestbook
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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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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 943)
I was with the 9th airforce,48th Fighter group, 494th Sqdn. stationed in St. Trond, Belgium. I was shot down on my 27th mission when I challenged an ME-109. I bailed out and spent the rest of the conflict as a P.O.W. We were freed on April 28,1945. It was wonderful to see the American flag go up over Moosburg, Germany, The P-47 is a wonderful plane. God Bless you all. C.W. Looper
Posted By: Charles W. Looper 2nd.Lt.
(looper@dscrs.com)
on 04/22/2000 7:45:13 PM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 942)
Super website and a very interesting guest book. Best wishes to all P-47 pilots. I am interested in recorded the history of the Fairchild Primary Trainers and I am sure for many of you this was one step on the way to the mighty Jug. Would like to hear from any who learn on PT-19, PT-23 or PT-26. I beleive that should encompass USAAF, RAF, French, Brazilian and Mexican fighter pilots.
Posted By: C. A. Broadhurst
(broadhurst@talk21.com)
on 04/22/2000 6:17:48 PM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 941)
Go here to veiw our P.47 excavation.,,,,,, http://homepages.tesco.net/~colin.wingrave/p.47.htm
Posted By: colin wingrave
(aviation_museum@yahoo.com)
on 04/21/2000 5:25:32 PM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 940)
Some American airmen were shot down Dec. 17th, 1944, while bombing the bridge at Neuf Brisach in the Colmar Pocket, Alsace. My father participated in the battles around Colmar and I know a little about what happened in the air. Any XII Tac Airmen, pilots, navigators etc. out there? The bridge was given an honorary Knight’s Cross. Flak was said to be about the heaviest of the war around the bridge. The Reichsfuehrer SS Begleit ’Escort’ batallion was fighting in the pocket around Colmar Dec. 15th, and was probably using their tracked AA guns on American planes. Also Himmler was now in charge of not only fighting in the Colmar Pocket, but all AA and artillery in the Reich. 30 light and heavy artillery batteries around Colmar. Flak had to be heavy. View 36th infantry division website for Colmar Pocket Battles or GregColmar@hotmail.com Operation Habicht kicked off Dec. 12th, 1944, around Colmar and American divebombers hit German positions east of Selestat along the Rhine. On Dec. 17th, 1944, some German prisoners were taken in a dazed state from bombing along the river Ill. Maps on 36th site.
Posted By: Greg Underwood
(GregColmar@hotmail.com)
on 04/21/2000 3:23:06 PM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 939)
I am writing a photographic history of the 9th AF in the ETO 1944/5. I am lacking interesting quality photographs for these Fighter Groups- 36th, 48th , 358th, 362nd, 363rd, 368th, 370th, 373rd, 405th, 406th, 474th. CAN YOU HELP ME GET HOLD OF SOME PHOTOS FROM THESE GROUPS SO THEIR STORIES ARE TOLD FULLY? I can accept jpegs or photographic reprints. PLEASE GET IN TOUCH!
Posted By: Nathan Kosky
(nathan_kosky@hotmail.com)
on 04/21/2000 1:38:26 PM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 938)
Thank you for this great site, with all the information. Being a member of the P-47 Advocates, I am glad to see a web site dedicated to the pilots of the P-47 Thunderbolt. I have read many books on the war in Europe, but the ones about the mem who flew are the best. I especially liked Tom Glenn’s Book ’P-47 Pilots The Fighter Bomber Boys’. I still mourn the passing of Robert S. Johnson in December 1998. If I can help anyone get pictures or information on the P-47 please feel free to contact me.
Posted By: Ronald R. Brand
(A89251@AOL.COM)
on 04/20/2000 8:22:45 PM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 937)
I am looking for information’s regarding a P-47 Pilot named LAMAR Robert probably 9th AF, did someone know the Group and squadron he belonged, the airplane he flew in, and his fate? Phil
Posted By: Phil
(philippe.dufrasne@skynet.be)
on 04/16/2000 5:52:26 PM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 936)
Just stumbled on the site. Thanks all for laying it on the line back then. I’ve lived a good life thanks to all of you and those that didn’t come back. Rich
Posted By: Rich Lord
(lordstruthers@aol.com)
on 04/14/2000 2:29:12 AM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 935)
perry lusby WHO? perry and i flew in thw big war together. he at group and i with the 391st sqdn. great talking with you.
Posted By: bud bristol
(rbri380410@aol.com)
on 04/13/2000 2:19:25 PM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 934)
perry lusby WHO?perry and i flew the big war together. he at group, i at the 391st sqdn also a life member. great talking with you.
Posted By: bud bristol
(rbri380410@aol.com)
on 04/13/2000 2:15:16 PM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 933)
I’m doing a historical research paper for the Latin American Aviation Historical Society. During W.W.II Mexico fought in the Pilippines against Japan, The Escuadron-201 wasa ttached to the 5th airforce and began flying missions on P-47 Razor-Back. Sometime later they were given their planes P-47RD-30. While with the 5th AF, the former 348th and 35 were switching form P-47 to P-51 Mustangs. The P-47 were then given under then given to the Mexican Expeditionary air force, does anybody has any pictures of teh P-47 RazorBacks that were used by the 348 while in the Philippines? Sincerely, Rene Hoyo.
Posted By: Rene Hoyo
(Escuadron@aol.com)
on 04/11/2000 1:19:17 PM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 932)
this is for the younger generations who show such an interest in the p-47 & we who flew it. gaduated in july, class 43-g @ spence field in ga. accumulated 300 hrs in the ’gug’..200 combat the rest non-combat. flew in the 9th air force--509th sqd.-405th grp. first mission april 1944 @ Crhistchurch ,England then Normandy & last @ St Dizier, France. of these missions, 15 were bomber escort..the rest, dive bomb, working the railroads & convoys ground support. we did’nt have the fashiest a/c,but ido feel i woul’nt be writing this if had any other a/c in combat eccept the p-47!! prvious to combat, had 100 hrs in the p-40 @ sarasota,Fla. upon completing our combat training in Fla, about 22 of us were assigned to go to China/Burma. got about 75 miles at nite, from Sarasota in a charterd bus & collided with a stalled truck loaded with dynamite. fortunately that was the extent of the collision, except we rolled over on our side in the ditch.(those emergency windows do work!) then assigned to a new outfit forming up in S.C. flying p-39’s---after about 60 hrs we switched to the p-47. that was going from the smallest to the largest @ the first flight was like sitting in bathtub. after combat in europe- came back to the states & assigned to LasVegas Nev. as targets for b-17 gunners, flying the p-39 again along with the p-63 ’the pin ball machine’. that was another experiance, being fired at with frangible bullits! ended up in the south east traning command as an aerial gunnery instuctor teaching graduating cadets from Tuskegee @ Eglin Field Fla. point of interest....there were more p-47’s built @ flown during WWII then any other fighter in the U.S.
Posted By: d.bruce mackay
(subrumac@alltel.net)
on 04/08/2000 4:23:58 PM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 931)
My uncle flew P47’s and P51’s in the Pacific during WWII, and told me about the site. My cousin April Buckner has already visited.
Posted By: Michael George
(mgeorge1@hotmail.com)
on 04/08/2000 2:10:10 PM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 930)
you may find this page interesting http://homepages.tesco.net/~colin.wingrave/p47.htm
Posted By: colin wingrave
(colin.wingrave@tesco.net)
on 04/07/2000 5:31:45 PM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 929)
Dear Sirs, Any flyers out there who flew for 9th Air Force, 12th Tac? If so I can tell you a lot about what was going on the ground in Dec. 44, if you can tell me a little about your exploits I’d appreciate it. My father fought with 36th infantry division. I post alot on the Colmar, Alsace, battles on their ’discussion area forum.’ These guys were knocking out bridges on the Rhine and Ill Rivers and trying to knock out Neuf Brisach Bridge. Any stories? Also I’m interested in finding out about the Red-Tail Squadron, Stolen US P47 Thunderbolts that showed up in Alsace. Where were they stolen from? The Bulge and who flew them. Dad was hit by mortars at Selestat Dec 17, 1944 and transported to Mirecourt, Vosges. The Luftwaffe bombed and strafed the hospital there at end of Dec., but I do not know if he was there yet. Sincerely, Greg Underwood at GregColmar@hotmail.com
Posted By: Greg Underwoodr
(GregColmar@hotmail.com)
on 04/07/2000 3:42:00 PM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 928)
Dear Sirs, My father fought in Alsace. Would be interested in talking to anyone who flew over Alsace in December 44. GregColmar@hotmail.com
Posted By: Greg Underwood
(GregColmar@hotmail.com)
on 04/07/2000 3:34:11 PM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 927)
My Dad flew in WWII and told me about this site, so I thought I’d check it out.
Posted By: APRIL BUCKNER
(ABUCKN@AOL.COM)
on 04/06/2000 2:11:33 PM EST
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Guestbook Entry (msg id: 926)
Enjoy this every time I log on. Have previously logged in, too.
Posted By: Frank Dutko
(dutko43d@hotmail.com)
on 04/05/2000 4:21:01 PM EST
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