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PostPosted: Fri Dec 15, 2017 10:03 am 
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Here's a rare one.

Republic P-47N-20-RE Thunderbolt 15,000th P-47 Thunderbolt Off the Assembly Line July 1945. I haven't found much on what became of this particular P-47.

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PostPosted: Sat Dec 16, 2017 7:08 pm 
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Where is this one now?

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PostPosted: Sat Dec 16, 2017 7:37 pm 
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Did they fly it straight to the scrapyard?


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PostPosted: Sat Dec 16, 2017 8:28 pm 
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dang with 15k t bolts made there has to be alot of them sitting in fresh water lakes awaiting discovery somewhere I would think??


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Can you say beer cans.


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PostPosted: Sun Dec 17, 2017 1:40 pm 
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I've found nothing yet as to 15,000th history.

Here's the 10K P-47

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Col. Martin w 87th FS, 79th FG P-47 'Ten Grand' 10,000th

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10,000th P- 47 en route from factory to embarkation point for delivery overseas, Sept. 1944

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P-47 Thunderbolt (serial number 44-20441) nicknamed '10 Grand Thunderbolt' of the 79th Fighter Group, 12th Air Force.

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PostPosted: Mon Dec 18, 2017 6:26 pm 
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Yeah, I'm afraid to say it but I wonder if they flew that 15K Jug directly to the scrapyard.


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PostPosted: Mon Dec 18, 2017 8:11 pm 
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Richard W. wrote:
Yeah, I'm afraid to say it but I wonder if they flew that 15K Jug directly to the scrapyard.


It could well have become a Lend-Lease aircraft to South America. I see P-47 serials ranging from 44-4891xx to 44-4893xx were some that went to Nicaragua. Latin America used many F4U, P-47 and P-51 aircraft.

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PostPosted: Mon Dec 25, 2017 10:46 pm 
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Wow 15000! You Americans don't mess around. 8)


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