Crash & Salvage WWII

[Jack Cook]

P-40K 23rd FG 1943

P-39Q Moses Lake, WA 1944

P-39Q moses Lake, Wa 1944

P-38 F 1st FG Tunisia 1943

P-38G 339th FS Guadalcanal 1943

P-38F "Tojo's Fate" 339th FS New Calidonia 1943

[muddyboots]

How did this get missed? For a second I was sort of shocked by the engine shoved behind the pilots seat on that P39...Only it's a P39

[Wheels up]

It is remarkable there are enough combustibles aboard a P38 to create a conflagration intense and sustained enough to melt and consume the prop blades completely to the steel hub on the starboard engine. Amazing.
As the nose strut is horizontal with wheel fwd, it would appear the ship went down with gear stowed......of course could have folded up at way during the fire.
Not being a worldly traveler it is difficult for me to grasp Tunisia gets that cold....check the fellows cold weather gear.

[Paul Krumrei]

Hey Jack,


I cleaned up all those pen marks on the one you have here.

[bdk]

It is remarkable there are enough combustibles aboard a P38 to create a conflagration intense and sustained enough to melt and consume the prop blades completely to the steel hub on the starboard engine.

You can see the nose with the guns to the far right too.

There are big fuel bladders on either side of the cockpit inboard of the engines. That would explain where all that metal went!