Practice recovering a P-39 out of woods (date unknown) ...

[Mark Allen M]

Robins Field Georgia. Practicing the loading of a simulated wreck onto a C-3 truck and trailer. A P-39 was used for the demonstration.

[Chris Brame]

Thanks Mark! Looks like P-39N 42-18833, carrying the Z-## code assigned to Thomasville AAF in Georgia. On May 9th, 1943, Ren'e suffered Category 3 damage in a landing accident (per AAIR) while with the 104th Reconnaissance Squadron there. Baugher doesn't mention this one.

May I pass on this photo to John Voss for his Fuselage Codes site?

[jdvoss]

When I first spotted the field letter code (Z-33) I immediatly concluded that it was an aircraft from Las Vegas AAF, NV. I had forgotten that there was ONE (and ONLY one) AAF in the EFTC that used the hyphen to separate the field letter "Z" and the locally assigned number "33". That was Thomasville AAF, GA where every aircraft received a hyphen P-39's, P-40's and P-51's et.al Whoops!

For those who have the book "Georgia's Army Airfields of WWII" by Mel Shettle, Pgs 120-125 illustate their mismarked aircraft.