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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Flifast on November 23, 2015, 10:16:07 AM
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Can any of you P47 guru's find out the proper paint for this Jug?
P-47 42-27609's Story, Photos and Updates
January 7, 2015
This P-47D-23 RA served in the Southwest Pacific. It was abandoned at Dobodura Airfield on Papua New Guinea in 1944. Later it was recorded as sitting in the yard of a house in Popondetta, the capital of Oro province in northern Papua New Guinea.
We are researching the unit it served with , currently the most likely candidate is 5th Air Force, 348th Fighter Group, 342nd Squadron. History cards on order for this and another P-47 on from the Air Force Historical Research Agency will help zero in on this once we receive them.
Any information on Thunderbolts in New Guinea, or photos would be greatly appreciated.
Flifast
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Kind of stripped of paint detail :/
(http://www.pacificwrecks.com/aircraft/p-47/42-27609/p47-oro.jpg)
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Kind of stripped of paint detail :/
(http://www.pacificwrecks.com/aircraft/p-47/42-27609/p47-oro.jpg)
A bit of paint here and there and it is good to go :aok
Though I am not sure if those tires at the front are originals.
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RATS! I saw Jugg and well....no more needs be said..... :x :bolt:
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Kind of stripped of paint detail :/
(http://www.pacificwrecks.com/aircraft/p-47/42-27609/p47-oro.jpg)
Frenchie,with your skills that should buff right out!!!
Yellow and black like the mustang2 would be my choice! :aok
:salute
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:lol
... but the way I fly, I'd bring it back looking like that :O
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:lol
... but the way I fly, I'd bring it back looking like that :O
:rofl :rofl :rofl
Well it would look pretty on take off! :aok
:salute
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Not the same bird, but from the same squad:
They seemed to be painted OD with a light gray undersurface with white tail feathers as well as on the wings leading edges. The numbers were yellow stenciled onto a black box on the verticle stab.
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/15/04/77/1504776b126612db0488711306c68f92.jpg)
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/P-47d-42-8053-348FG.jpg)
A site talking about Bill Dunham's fighter pilot career. He started out serving with the 348th but was later transferred.
http://www.ipmsstockholm.org/magazine/2007/08/profile-p47-thunderbolt-william-dunham.htm
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Payer, they don't know which squad it's from. That's why they are asking for, if someone has a serial number cross reference.
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The SN database doesn't show it being deployed to a specific squad but does have it listed as being kept in someones back yard in Popandetta in 1977 (probably the first pic you posted). It's sister aircraft (27608) was last registered with the 348th FG, 342nd FS at Popondetta on Dec 6, 1944.
You are right, we don't actually know where it's from but it seems most likely that it went with its sister. Based on the fact that the SNs for 27522 through 27711 seem to be all over the place, they might have been replacements.
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RATS! I saw Jugg and well....no more needs be said..... :x :bolt:
Yep, not what I was thinking either... :x
Coogan
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Great work. I'll pass it on.
Fli