some of you may remember a few weeks ago i was researching a Mustang identity that eventualy got resolved, (thank you all again for the assistance) well for the sleuths amongust us some info on this P-47 would be very well recieved:-
medium size pic
http://www.flickr.com/photos/18532986@N07/3631724926/sizes/m/
large pic
http://www.flickr.com/photos/18532986@N07/3631724926/sizes/o/
The life watermark has been looked into and is a dead end;)
By: contrailjj - 21st June 2009 at 04:34
A quick Googling turned this up in an excerpt on Google Books – the very same photo (albeit cropped) is used in the book.
“P-47 Thunderbolt Aces of the Ninth and Fifteenth Air Forces”
By Jerry Scutts
(page 13)
The photo is credited as (IWM HU 76214)
Aircraft is P-47D – coded IA-V (sorry, no serial quoted)
358th FG
Pilot in photo: Lt. Milford C Peterson (367th FS)
Aircraft was the usual mount for Capt Robert Schuster of the 366th FS
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June 21, 2009 at 1:03 am