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Jack Cook · **Posted:** Wed Sep 30, 2009 9:04 pm

P-39N Panama 1943

2Lt Blanchard & P-400 41st FS

1Lt "Big Fred" Thompson 41st FS

1Lt Ed Schneider 41st FS

2Lt Lew Raines 41st FS

P-39 at Townsville, AU

P-39K 40th FS

P-400 35th FG

Hal B · **Posted:** Wed Sep 30, 2009 10:50 pm

Thanks Jack!

the330thbg · **Joined:** Wed Nov 14, 2007 3:06 pm **Posts:** 2713

Waaaaaaaaaay Cool!!!!

Holedigger · **Posted:** Thu Oct 01, 2009 8:13 am

Watch those Cobras, they may look funny, but they BITE! They didn't do real well against top line fighters, but held their own. Packed a pretty good punch and helped stem the tide till newer, better AC could be brought to the fight. Looks like some VERY primitive fields being flown out of. Cool pics Jack! They really did patch the cracks for the first couple years of the war and don't get coverage like the P-51, P-40 or P-38. A real workhorse.

tex-fan · **Posted:** Thu Oct 01, 2009 9:35 am

at least peices of cobras, great pics!!

Django · **Posted:** Thu Oct 01, 2009 11:38 am

I remember that last pic from when I was building the Monogram model when I was 14.

Holedigger · **Posted:** Thu Oct 01, 2009 11:46 am

I have some book around here called "The World's Worst Aircraft" and they had the gall to put the P-39 in there. I think there were plenty of other "Worst Planes", guess when folks make lists it is a VERY subjective thing!!

Matt Gunsch · **Posted:** Thu Oct 01, 2009 12:07 pm

How much you want to bet the pilot is asking if it will be ready to fly in a hour.

Steve Nelson · **Posted:** Thu Oct 01, 2009 8:47 pm

Did they hang one of those little pine tree air fresheners in the cockpit when they were done?

SN

Franta Sredl · **Posted:** Mon Oct 05, 2009 1:27 pm

Hello Jack,
I have specification for his photos. Fotos with Lt.Blanchard,1st Lt Thompson
(both 41st FS) and 1Lt. Schneider,2nd Lt Raines (both 40th FS) were taken immediately after their big air battle from 02/06/1943 over Wau. Other pilots from the collectionn were McDonough(plane No.23), Winburn (plane No.9), Taylor (plane No.5) Shirk (plane No. 24), DeBoer (plane No 7) - all from 40th FS and Lt Woodring from 41st FS with Plane No 175.
http://www.modelforum.cz/viewtopic.php? ... 36#p715336

Jack Cook · **Posted:** Mon Oct 05, 2009 2:15 pm

I have a bunch more all from my former next door neighbor Alex Currie of the 41st FS.

Dan Johnson II · **Joined:** Tue May 04, 2004 1:49 am **Posts:** 659

Jack Cook wrote:

I have a bunch more all from my former next door neighbor Alex Currie of the 41st FS.

Post em Jack! Any of Edwards Park and #74?

Jack Cook · **Posted:** Mon Oct 05, 2009 8:02 pm

Alex said Ed Parks was OK but his book was complete HS! Alex was there from Dec 42 thru March 44 and flew 268 missions.

Lt Tom Winburn 40th FS

Capt Bill McDonough 40th FS

Lt Gene DeBoer 40th FS

Lt Shick

Jack Cook · **Posted:** Mon Oct 05, 2009 10:10 pm

Lt Judge Hoyt in his P-47D

Rick65 · **Posted:** Tue Oct 06, 2009 1:20 am

Thanks for the great photos and especially those of the 41st.

Is this another one of my childhood favourite warplane novels becoming suspect on the grounds of economy with the truth?

For me when I was young "Angels 20" was to PNG like Clostermann's "Big Show" was to the last years of the ETO.
They both made it seem very real to me at the time and also on reread since.

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