Fuerza Aérea de Chile P-47D Thunderbolt

Mon Sep 15, 2008 8:14 am

I have never seen the image of the Thunderbolt in Chilean markings. Anywhere on web?

Mon Sep 15, 2008 8:42 am

got some more at home on my HDD

stay tuned

Martin

Mon Sep 15, 2008 8:50 am

Mon Sep 15, 2008 12:54 pm

28 minutes between first post and reply. God your good Martin!

Rgds Cking

Mon Sep 15, 2008 3:45 pm

For a color (not full-side pic), go to:
http://www.museoaeronautico.cl/espanol/ ... p?p=8&n=12

They've got a few gems down there! :wink:

a few more pics here:
http://www.ipmsstockholm.org/magazine/2 ... es_p47.htm

and here (illustrations, not pics)
http://wp.scn.ru/en/ww2/f/350/108/0

Mon Sep 15, 2008 4:11 pm

Very nice links!! As I know P-47 is delivered to Chile during the WW2 but all images show this plane after the war [because pilot have helmets and this comes after the war]. Am I right?

Mon Sep 15, 2008 6:10 pm

Umm, according to the second link, Chile received P-47s in 1946 (another site said 1947, but gave the same day and month). Brazil and Mexico did, however, use the Jug during the war.

Mon Sep 15, 2008 6:41 pm

I love the squadron insignia.

Mon Sep 15, 2008 11:22 pm

So thats why the pilots have a helmets...

Tue Sep 16, 2008 3:47 am

Cking wrote:28 minutes between first post and reply. God your good Martin!

Rgds Cking

it took so long because I am supposed to do some decent work every now and then..... :roll:

I'd love to have a mirror copy of my external HDD at work so I can access thousands of photos immediately.... but then I wouldn't find any time for my job anymore..... :lol:

Martin