Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Custom Skins => Topic started by: oboe on July 26, 2009, 07:13:47 AM
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Can anyone identify this P-38? I assume from the checkerboard on the tail that it is from the 78th FG?
(http://www.oneeighthairforce.org/Portals/0/Dave%20Morales%20P38.jpg)
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Brilliant Deduction, but the 78th FG never had P-38s Watson. :lol
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And who knows if that is an accurate paint scheme?
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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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Not sure which fight group this bird flew for, but its a pretty skin!
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Would be cool if it was an 82nd plane, but i doubt it.
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82nd never carried D-Day stripes. Wrong theater of the war :)
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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/ (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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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.