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Title: Beautiful
Post by: Greebo on December 21, 2022, 03:18:02 AM

Oboe requested another 365th FG jug skin for the Battle of Paris scenario and thanks to Lyric1 kindly found me the info for this one.

"Beautiful" was the P-47D flown by Captain William Ritchie, CO of the 386th Fighter Squadron. It has the lower D Day stripes on the wings and fuselage used by Allied aircraft from July to September 1944. These markings didn't prevent all friendly fire incidents though and this aircraft was badly damaged by AA fire from Allied ships in July. A replacement left tail plane was left in it's camouflage paint and this wasn't stripped off until later in the year. The squadron's main role was ground attack and so the scoreboard featured rows of milk bottles for milk runs and corn liquor jugs for dicier attack missions, as well as a lone cross for one of the two air to air kills Ritchie was to score during the war. Post war he stayed in the air force and later served in both Korea and Vietnam.

(https://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=406605.0;attach=35921)

(https://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=406605.0;attach=35923)

Title: Re: Beautiful
Post by: lyric1 on December 21, 2022, 03:51:26 AM

  :aok

Title: Re: Beautiful
Post by: Devil 505 on December 21, 2022, 07:18:14 AM

beautiful indeed.

Title: Re: Beautiful
Post by: JimmyD3 on December 21, 2022, 08:24:08 AM

Awesome job Greebo!!! :aok

Title: Re: Beautiful
Post by: oboe on December 21, 2022, 08:37:56 AM

Well-named!  Thank you Greebo!

Title: Re: Beautiful
Post by: Vraciu on December 21, 2022, 09:55:51 AM

Neat.   Great work.  Gotta love the humor...

Title: Re: Beautiful
Post by: Hajo on December 22, 2022, 01:10:14 PM

As a Jug Aficionado spectacular!