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C170BDan
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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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1st P-38 is from the 432nd FS 475th FG.
could be Amberly Field or more likely New Guinea.

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Not enough trees and not flat enough to be Amberly... :D

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Were BT-13s used outside the US? In forward areas? It looks like a combat zone. Maybe?

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Looks to be somewhere in New Guinea by that mountain in the background

Maybe Nadzab !

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C170BDan
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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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Anyway you can crop and zoom in on the P-38's?

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Mike Bates wrote:
Anyway you can crop and zoom in on the P-38's?

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I can... the scan turned out pretty good so when I get home tonight I will crop it down.

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Dan, I wouldn't mind seeing the tractor too, so see what it is.

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Django wrote:
Dan, I wouldn't mind seeing the tractor too, so see what it is.

You just want this to be the TIX... :lol:

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C170BDan
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OK... here is the close up. So ya'll can check out the 38s, the BT-13 AND the tractor!

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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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C170BDan
 Post subject: More 38s
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A few more from the same collection of pictures.

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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. :shock:

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Lynn Allen
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C170BDan wrote:
A few more from the same collection of pictures.

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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....

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jdvoss
 Post subject: BT-13's in New Guinea
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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.
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