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| Author: | eha [ Thu Feb 12, 2015 4:55 am ] |
| Post subject: | Photos of a P-51/F6-D10 #44-140159 |
Hi, I’m a journalist working for a local newspaper here in Warendorf/Germany and I’m researching the end of WWII in my town for a series of articles in the coming months. There was an incident I’m trying to find out more about: On March 23th 1945 an american plane on a recon mission was shot down by flak over Warendorf. The plane crashed into a ropery and killed the owner. The man killed was my grandfathers father-in-law, he was the only civilian war dead in Warendorf. The fighter pilot was killed, too, his name was Paul W. Schmidt and he was from Garden City/NY. His mother and his younger brother visited the crash site and his grave here in Warendorf in 1958, there’s a newspaper article about his family visiting my family. Now I want to tell his and my familiy's story 70 years after liberation. I did a little research and got the Missing Air Crew Report: http://i.imgur.com/0ksS2LM.jpg From that I know that 1st Lieutenant Paul William Schmidt flew a F6-D10 with the tail number #44-140159 And I got a hint that there are pictures of his aircraft. Now there's some confusion about this particular tail number because Tamiya offered a model-plane which has an (almost?) identical number, but the date and the pilot don't match. Is there any chance that a tail number was used twice? I know that the tail numbers were shortened during the war and the first digit(?) was left out. Can you help me out? Thank you very much! |
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