Warbird Information Exchange

Well now, I’ll be dipped in dung, thanks for the enlargement, which sheds a great deal of light on the subject. I tried enlarging it and all I got was mucked up mega pixels which did not reveal as near as clear result. I, with a great deal of crap on myself, do tactfully withdraw my attempt at identification and concur that these guys are of foreign military service and resume my position as JAFO

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Kind Regards,
Gary Lewis
J.A.F.O.

Can you get more clues from the AC serial number?

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Well if I can't rollerskate around my playpen while smoking and drinking a beer, I'm staying home..

I know this doesn't really help identify the guys in the picture but just a little search of the aircraft turned up this:

On December 7th of 1948 Ramon Davis flying F-82E 46-293 crashed due to a forced landing from engine failure at Kearney AFB, Nebraska.

I think the individuals are lost to history. The guy on the far right does have the right style uniform on for USAF but no scrambled eggs on his hat visor makes him "not a General". I could see some kind of NATO visit or joint inspection but it is really just guessing. I researched all the 8th Air Force commanders during that time and none of the pictures come close to the guy on the far right. Idunno?

27th Fighter Escort Wing 523 Fighter Squadron. Reactivated as part of United States Air Forces in Europe occupation forces in Germany, 1946. Inactivated 1947 as a paper unit, being assigned to Strategic Air Command. Assigned to Kearney AFB, Nebraska in 1947 as a strategic escort squadron for B-29/B-50 Superfortresses. Equipped with very long-range F-82E Twin Mustangs in 1948, being replaced with F-84E Thunderjets in 1950.
Deployed to Far East Air Forces, December 1950 and engaged in combat over Korea as escort squadron for B-29 Bombers of Far East Air Force. Remained in combat until Armistice in 1953. Escorted SAC B-50/B-36 Peacemaker strategic bombers throughout the 1950s until SAC inactivated fighter-escort squadrons in 1957 with final phase out of propeller-driven strategic bomber force.

Just a little back story.