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Offline oboe

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Help identifying this P-38J
« on: July 26, 2009, 07:13:47 AM »
Can anyone identify this P-38?   I assume from the checkerboard on the tail that it is from the 78th FG?
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Re: Help identifying this P-38J
« Reply #1 on: July 26, 2009, 07:31:13 AM »
Brilliant Deduction, but the 78th FG never had P-38s Watson.  :lol
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Re: Help identifying this P-38J
« Reply #2 on: July 26, 2009, 08:46:40 AM »
And who knows if that is an accurate paint scheme?
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Re: Help identifying this P-38J
« Reply #3 on: July 26, 2009, 12:26:47 PM »
Quote from: Fencer51 on July 26, 2009, 07:31:13 AM
Brilliant Deduction, but the 78th FG never had P-38s Watson.  :lol

Oh yes they did!  They had P38Gs that flew the Atlantic route to England, but they gave them up as replacement aircraft for the groups in North Africa :)

Where is the photo from?
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Re: Help identifying this P-38J
« Reply #4 on: July 26, 2009, 08:22:17 PM »
Not sure which fight group this bird flew for, but its a pretty skin!
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Offline StokesAk

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Re: Help identifying this P-38J
« Reply #5 on: July 26, 2009, 09:45:09 PM »
Would be cool if it was an 82nd plane, but i doubt it.
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Re: Help identifying this P-38J
« Reply #6 on: July 26, 2009, 11:58:38 PM »
82nd never carried D-Day stripes.  Wrong theater of the war :)
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Offline oboe

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Re: Help identifying this P-38J
« Reply #7 on: July 27, 2009, 05:37:13 AM »
I thought I remembered the 78th was the only fighter group to fly all 3 main fighters - 38, 47, and 51.   The pic is from a Google image search, and I just checked out the website it's from:  http://www.oneeighthairforce.org/

It's an R/C bird - builder says its modelled after Jimmy Doolittle's D-Day recon fighter - apparently he overflew the invasion beaches?    Check out the video of it on the site - build detail and weathering is incredible.
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Offline MjTalon

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Re: Help identifying this P-38J
« Reply #8 on: July 27, 2009, 08:32:29 AM »
IIRC like Guppy said, the 78th FG had 38G's but they didn't have them when they were operationally active? I remember reading that the 78th FG had P-38s but transitioned to the 47 at the outbreak of WW2.
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