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Title: about that brazilian jug
Post by: Citabria on July 20, 2001, 07:55:00 PM

http://www.mat.ufrgs.br/~rudnei/FAB/eng/p-47.html (http://www.mat.ufrgs.br/~rudnei/FAB/eng/p-47.html)

all you wanted to know about the green bubble top jug

Title: about that brazilian jug
Post by: Citabria on July 20, 2001, 08:01:00 PM

http://www.mat.ufrgs.br/~rudnei/FAB/eng/guerra.html (http://www.mat.ufrgs.br/~rudnei/FAB/eng/guerra.html)

Title: about that brazilian jug
Post by: Sancho on July 20, 2001, 09:00:00 PM

HTC has erroneously labeled this aircraft a P-47D-25-RE, when in fact the tail numbers (42-26786) give it away as being a -27, as does Dan Hagedorn's book P-47 The Final Chapter: Latin American Air Force Service, which contains Brazilian Air Force records of all jugs used by the FAB listing "D4" as a -27.

Title: about that brazilian jug
Post by: Thunder on July 21, 2001, 12:21:00 AM

Sancho,
Interesting, I looked it up after I read your post. You are right!  :) Tail numbers 42-26774 thru 42-27384 (Quantity 611) were built under contract W535-AC-29279-6 and were P-47D-27-RE. Wow.. you really know your stuff!

Salute,

Thunder