Looking for photos of a specific MD ANG Jug…

[p51]

I was wondering if anyone might know where I could find photos of a specific P-47 in Maryland Air National Guard use. The serial # was 44-90408, and it crashed into Baltimore harbor on 22 April, 1950. The pilot was Peter Delo. I knew Mr. Delo later in life before he passed away and I’d love to know what this plane looked like. He had a copy of the newspaper article but it didn’t show much (I remember the tail was sticking out of the water). I don’t think he had any photos of it before the ditching. He had the distinction of being one of the few people who’d ever ditched a Jug as well as a B-17, into the North Sea in 1944.

[Chappie]

MD ANG P-47? I did not know Baltimore flew P-47s. I know the DC ANG flew P-47s in the later 40s.


Chappie

[DaveG]

MD ANG P-47? I did not know Baltimore flew P-47s. I know the DC ANG flew P-47s in the later 40s.

Chappie

looks like it:

[Chappie]

Well I'll be damned. I've only seen history on Baltimore's P-51Hs I never knew about thier Thunderbolts. Cool.


Chappie

[p51]

Thanks for the photo, even if his Jug wasn't in it, at least I have an idea what it would have looked like now.
He told me a funny story once, several of the squadron went to Key West and spent several days having fun in the sun and finshing. He caught a huge swordfish and having no other way to get it back, someone wired it to the hardpoint under a wing. By the time he got back to Baltimore, he said all that was left was the head and part of the spine!

[Dan K]

Interesting to note that his unit, the 104th FS, lost another Jug in the same body of water on the same day.

http://www.aviationarchaeology.com/src/ ... 950Apr.htm