Big Stud

[rogerdee]

No guys i am not talking about Skuzzy

talking about this plane and was wondering if anyone had  any more pictures or profiles of this aircraft.I believe the nose is red  and i think the tail is yellow with black check. the writing big stud was yellow or gold.
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think this would be  a good partner to my checkertail p47 d11

[Krusty]

Originally posted by rogerdee
No guys i am not talking about Skuzzy

I'm quite shocked, actually. This is a side of you I've never seen before...

EDIT: I might be wrong but I swear somebody already did it. Or something with a very similar card on the nose.

[Fencer51]

Originally posted by Krusty
EDIT: I might be wrong but I swear somebody already did it. Or something with a very similar card on the nose.

Krusty,

Have you ever noticed that you respond that way or a variation on "its been done" a large percentage of the time and are usually quite wrong?

Just curious.

BTW, a P-47D was done with a single card on the nose, it was a from a training squadron and it was a RAF bird.  The above plane has not been done and would be a great addition to the D40 stable.

Do you have a time frame for that plane?  I found a D23 razor back with that same number "88" and the same nose art.  Its from the 325th FG.  Pilot was Lt Col Robert L Baseler the Group CO.  P-47D-23 42-75008 @ Lesina Italy.

A profile is in P-47 Thunderbolt Aces of the Ninth and Fifteenth Air Forces by Jerry Scutts (Osprey Aircraft of the Aces 30) page 51.

I know the 325th went P-51s at some point, I wonder if that plane was his during some stateside tour.  I doubt they had the D30-D40 indicated by the fusalage fillet.  Did you note that the nose art is different in the two photos?

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Just found the following in the same book, page 40 has a photo of the D23 with the following caption which reads in part.

Basseler led the group from 5 July 1943 until 1 April 1944.. He later acquired a 'bubbletop' P-47D after leaving the group (a sub-type never flown by the 325th in combat), which he also named BIG STUD.

Hope this helps.

[Guppy35]

we've discussed this particular Big Stud before.  It was the Col. Robert Baseler's P47D-40 that he flew while commanding a base in Brownsville Texas.

It was not a combat P47

[Krusty]

Originally posted by Fencer51
Krusty,

Have you ever noticed that you respond that way or a variation on "its been done" a large percentage of the time and are usually quite wrong?

Aaahhhh, but I wasn't entirely wrong! There was a 47D with a card on the nose, right?

[Krusty]

Originally posted by Guppy35
we've discussed this particular Big Stud before.  It was the Col. Robert Baseler's P47D-40 that he flew while commanding a base in Brownsville Texas.

It was not a combat P47

You see, I recall that it was brought up, I just didn't know the end result. That coupled with my memory of another 47D that had a card on the nose made me think it was already done. It was really 2 separate issues running together that confused me.

[Fencer51]

Uh huh..

[Krusty]

That's my story

[rogerdee]

Krusty the plane you were thinking about was a RAF otu one  and was sent in for submisson by me a few months ago.

ok so the only combat one her flew as big stud was the olive razor back,oh well thats stoped me playing with this one.

Although from looking at picture and reading the text on the webpage he seemed to have  another p47 that was a combat plane after the razor back but before this.

Guess ill have to keep looking see if i can find anything else