Warbird Information Exchange

Hello everyone,

I'm looking for any and all information I can get on three P-47s.

First is "Air Cooled Injun"



Second is "Hou La La"



Third is "Corny Babe"




Any and all help you can give me is greatly appreciated. Additional pictures would be great if anyone has some.

Cheers,
Brady

Brady: The photo of Corny Babe has the a/c serial number, so you should be able to have the record card pulled and get some of the history on it and where it served.

Googled "Corny Babe" and came up with the same picture in a book titled "P-47 Aces of the 9th and 15thnAir Forces". Caption said plane was in the 366th Fighter Group, the pilot unknown.

Found a website called "p-47 database" which appears to be French. It says: 44-21945, P-47D-30-RE, 366th FG, 391st Fighter Squadron, Code A8-H. "Corny Babe" - Pilote Forrestt J. Marvel.
Crashe a l'Atterrissage le 02/06/45 a Handorf//Y94 (All.)-Pilote: Hilmar G. Erickson - KIFA

According to Baugher's site, Republic P-47D-30-RE 44-21045 was condemned salvage -no battle damage 2 June 45.

Hello everyone,

I know it's been a while since my original posting. I've since found this picture online of what is claiming to be the remains of "Air Cooled Injun". I remember reading somewhere that they said they didn't have the negative for the insert of the picture in the top corner but using the simple photo editing on my phone I changed it from a negative to what it would look like as a picture and cropped it out, the only disadvantage is that it doesn't get any bigger.

Here's the remains:



The cropped out negative of the burned remains:


The plane at the bottom with the same serial number cropped out :



What do you guys think do you think "Air Cooled Injun" should have been a Razorback P-47? I was thinking that she should be a bubbletop "D" or an "N" model for some reason.

Cheers,
Brady

Being pictured on Saipan '...Injun' would be an unknown precisely (AFAIK) 318th FG Razorback, late enough to come as NMF.
If there was any Bubbletop D model used by 318th, the proof is yet to come. By the way, man can say it is surely a D model watching the shape of the screw cuffs. Thunderbolts with C-series R-2800 had them shaped differently.

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