FRE 3041

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The damaged tail of a P-47 Thunderbolt (serial number 42-75271) of the 353rd Fighter Group

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Units

Aircraft

The damaged tail of a P-47 Thunderbolt (serial number 42-7527) of the 78th Fighter Group.
  • Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
  • Unit: 353rd Fighter Group 352nd Fighter Squadron

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Revisions

Date:
ContributorEmily
ChangesChanges to caption, unit associations, place associations and aircraft associations
Sources

Research undertaken by users Pyker and phil marchese to ascertain the full serial number of the aircraft depicted . Peter Randall (Pyker) referred to the aircraft cumulative loss lists to identify the full aircraft S/N and that it belonged to the 353rd Fighter Group. Removed association to 42-7527 , which was identified as belonging to a B-24 liberator by Phil Marchese

A complete transcript of their discussion about this image and conclusion that 42-75271 is likely the correct S/N can be found on Facebook

Date:
ContributorAAM
ChangesAAM ingest
Sources

IWM, Roger Freeman Collection