P-38s WW2 Repair Depot (more pics added)
Wed Jan 21, 2009 10:46 pm
Found this picture in my collection. Shows a row of P-38s, a B-25 and what appears to be a BT-13. What caught my eye was the P-38 with "162" on the nose. Wondered if that was "23 Skidoo." I dont have any idea where the picture was taken but wanted to share my find.
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??
Wed Jan 21, 2009 11:32 pm
1st P-38 is from the 432nd FS 475th FG.
could be Amberly Field or more likely New Guinea.
could be Amberly Field or more likely New Guinea.
Penance worth..
Thu Jan 22, 2009 3:20 am
Not enough trees and not flat enough to be Amberly... 
Thu Jan 22, 2009 4:11 am
Were BT-13s used outside the US? In forward areas? It looks like a combat zone. Maybe?
New Guinea pic
Thu Jan 22, 2009 6:12 am
Howdy
Looks to be somewhere in New Guinea by that mountain in the background
Maybe Nadzab !
Lightning
Looks to be somewhere in New Guinea by that mountain in the background
Maybe Nadzab !
Lightning
Re: ??
Thu Jan 22, 2009 8:39 am
Jack Cook wrote:1st P-38 is from the 432nd FS 475th FG.
could be Amberly Field or more likely New Guinea.
The way that code/number is painted on the nose give you the clue to what FS and FG, Jack?
If I was going to guess I was going to say New Guinea. There is another group of Lightning pictures. One has run off the runway in the tall grass so that made me think of NG.
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Thu Jan 22, 2009 9:30 am
Anyway you can crop and zoom in on the P-38's?
Mike
Mike
Thu Jan 22, 2009 10:08 am
Mike Bates wrote:Anyway you can crop and zoom in on the P-38's?
Mike
I can... the scan turned out pretty good so when I get home tonight I will crop it down.
Thu Jan 22, 2009 11:09 am
Dan, I wouldn't mind seeing the tractor too, so see what it is.
Thu Jan 22, 2009 6:33 pm
Django wrote:Dan, I wouldn't mind seeing the tractor too, so see what it is.
You just want this to be the TIX...
Close up
Thu Jan 22, 2009 7:18 pm
OK... here is the close up. So ya'll can check out the 38s, the BT-13 AND the tractor!
Dont think I have seen pics of a BT-13 on a US base outside of the US... so it could be a T-6... even with my good eyes I cant quite be sure.
Dont think I have seen pics of a BT-13 on a US base outside of the US... so it could be a T-6... even with my good eyes I cant quite be sure.
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More 38s
Thu Jan 22, 2009 10:55 pm
A few more from the same collection of pictures.
Thu Jan 22, 2009 11:04 pm
Love the picture of the P-38 in the weeds with the shadow of the photographer's camera. He sure wasn't totin' no Brownie. 
Mudge the observant
Mudge the observant
Re: More 38s
Thu Jan 22, 2009 11:52 pm
C170BDan wrote:A few more from the same collection of pictures.
Ober, the last one is like what happen today? What is his N# as I forgot to look. When I turned base to final @ KLNC, the wind pushed me backwards towards IH45....
Lynn
BT-13's in New Guinea
Fri Jan 23, 2009 12:05 am
In the book "Pacific Aircraft Wrecks..." by Charles Darby he mentions a BT-13 at Nadzab (pg. 80). Even more remarkable (!) is that on pg 51 of the publication "Golden Wings 1941-45" by J. Sullivan there is a photo of at least one Grumman FF-2 on Guadalcanal in March of 1945. The FF is marked with 1944 style US insignia.