P-47 squadron on a combat mission in the war; nice footage

[Louis of PA]

We built some great stuff during that war and produced well-trained and highly motivated people.

It shows them flying over a large body of water; that's why I think this mission was flown from Italy, over the Adriatic. What do you think?

I think you'll appreciate this video:


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[goo]

cool f8 photo. somebody probably got yelled at.
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[HoosierDaddy]

Does anybody know what was later built at one of the factories that produced Jugs?

[talucah]

Warthogs?

[CTMC(ret)]

Does anybody know what was later built at one of the factories that produced Jugs?

American Airpower Museum at Farmingdale, NY?

[HoosierDaddy]

Republic had another factory besides the one at Farmingdale. It produced several thousand Jugs as well.
Hint:
The answer would have kept this on topic in the Garand forum.

[beachbumbob]

cool f8 photo. somebody probably got yelled at.
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http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r...gsfolded67.jpg

Goo,

You want to bet that they let him change his flight suit before they yelled at him. He probably stunk up the place badly!

Bob

[DaveHH]

From what I saw of this clip the place is Corsica and the planes cross over into Italy. This is from William Wyler's movie "Thunderbolt". It is really great. My Uncles worked on P47s in England and Belgium during WW2 so I got a good dose of P47s when I was a kid. The later models had the R2800C engine which could drum up over 2000 hp and a huge four blade paddle prop which made that sucker climb like a Spitfire. In a dive it could easily exceed 500 or more and 8 fifties was devastating. If I recall correctly, the highest scoring ace in Europe was Robert Johnson with 28 Kills in a Thunderbolt.

[HoosierDaddy]

Dave gets the prize. Republic built a second factory in Evansville, Indiana. They produced about 6000 Bolts. After the war Republic sold the place to International Harvester. IHC made cream separators, refrigerators, cotton pickers and home freezers. They later converted part of this factory to Garand production. They sold the factory to Whirlpool Corp which ended the production of Garands. Whirlpool still runs the place where they make refrigerators and other appliances.

[jon_norstog]

Hey guys,

When I was working down at Navajo, we were thinking about buying a ranch, the AJA, near Winslow. The realtor was a guy named George Bradley, big, tall guy in his early 70s then.

The man was a flyer in WWII - he ferried B-25s across to England mainloy. He said that he had made a delivery to an airbase that had just got a bunch of brand new P-47s. He got with the flight commander in the club and talked him into a test flight. The Flight CO said, "yeah, but I gotta go up with you in another plane."

Mr Bradley told me that the plane was a dream to flyand the two started kind of horsing around. Any way he got up and go on the Flight CO's tail - the guy tried to shake him but Mr. Bradley stuck like glue.

"The guy finally flew into a hangar that was open at both ends.So I just followed him on through." I guess maintenance men were scattering like quail when the 2 jugs flew through the hangar.

After they landed the Flight CO asked him if he wanted to fly P-47s. Mr.Bradley said he'd think about it, and flew them the rest of the war in Europe.

Mr. Bradley's gone now. The Hopi got the ranch in a land settlement. I still remember the man and follow some of his advice. He said, "No matter how big you win, always leave something on the table."

jn