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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 9960741874

Preddy's "P" is visible for a moment ...

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That's cool!

...not to hijack but...looking at other stuff on there and I saw this.

P-47's flying off a carrier!...



Gotta love the video sites...

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those are both awesome videos. Glad that footage has been preserved.

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OK...WAAAYY COOL...I'd never heard of P-47's being launched from a carrier. After seeing it, I can understand how easily it's done. That's a lot of airplane to get into the air in that short a distance though.
Let us know when the video of them coming back aboard is released. :shock:

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Let us know when the video of them coming back aboard is released. :shock:

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One time shot. This is how the USAAC aircraft were transported into the theatre of operations from the states. After the taking off from the carrier they would fly to their respective units ashore.
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I guess I'm just too SUBTLE sometimes. Est-ce que c'est pas aussi ?

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I guess I'm just too SUBTLE sometimes. Est-ce que c'est pas aussi ?

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Wonderful piece of film from Bodney - thanks for the link. I wonder if the armorer sequence was 'posed' for the camera as he forgets to secure the clamps on the forward gun access door with his dzeus key before walking away!

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One time shot. This is how the USAAC aircraft were transported into the theatre of operations from the states. After the taking off from the carrier they would fly to their respective units ashore.


Did they have specially trained pilots for carrier takeoffs who were dedicated to just flying these delivery missions...or did they cross the ocean with newly trained pilots, having them deliver the aircraft to the theater they (the pilot) would be going to serve in? (And if so, what were the takeoff instructions? "Full throttle son, and keep it out of the water.")

I have to imagine they didn't weigh down the T-bolt with full tanks of gas for these hops ashore.
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In the 352nd FG film the a/c that the armorer is working on.
P-51D 44-13331, HO-U.
June 28, 1944- Lt. ARNOLD, GEORGE C.
ENGINE FAILURE (Fire) Bailed safely. ASH, CANTERBURY,
This per 2 different accident reports. With that info and the fact that
invasion stripes are on these a/c the film had to be made within only weeks of D-Day.

The shark mouth Mustang in the film was easier.
The 352nd had only one. 43-6506, HO-Y Capt. John Bennett.

Very interesting film. Still researching some more on it.

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