Warbird Information Exchange

Greetings All -

I started scanning the European Theater photos for the Prairie Aviation Museum up in Bloomington, IL. Here's a Thunderbolt and a Mustang to enjoy.

Anyone care to guess if it is a P-47C or a P-47D? I'm guessing it's a D-5-RE due to the stars & bars - I've only Cs with the star and yellow surround. Not sure if they'll show on the close up image but the P-47 has 6 kills noted under the canopy rail....

Any help with additional info would be appreciated!

Enjoy the Day! Mark

P-51D "Small Boy Here" was the ride of Lt. John Kirk III.

Scroll down at the following for more pics and info on Lt. Kirk:

http://www.78thfightergroup.com/history ... nces1.html

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Thanks Dan for the info and link!

Enjoy the Day! Mark

TBolts are from the 63rd FS 56th FG

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I got lucky in one of my reference books and there was Bud Mahurin's P-47D-5-RE in essentially identical markings which then gave me the 53FS 56FG too. Still have to figure out who's aircraft it was though....

Thanks! Mark

Does it say "Jenny" on her?

Hi Paul -

Yes it does and as noted, it shows six kills under the canopy rail. I just took a look at the 56th FG web site and cannot find a reference to it - yet. The search goes on....

Enjoy the Day! Mark

On the web I can only find references to two aircraft marked "UN-P":

P-47D-5-RE (42-8554) flown by Lt. Harold L. Mathews

P-47D-10-RE (42-75206)

Mark, any chance you can make out (part of) either serial number in your photo? Certainly the Jug in the photo may not even be either of these aircraft.

http://www.littlefriends.co.uk/56thfg.p ... 1#tabletop

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Hi Dan -

No luck with the photo though I may try to do some funny stuff in PhotoShop to pull it out. Stay tuned...

Thanks! Mark