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I received this on the Warbird-Central.com site.
Does anyone know who I could contact with means to a P-47?
I received this message today. Does anyone know anyone with a P-47?
Good Afternoon,
First of all I would like to introduce myself. My name is Vickie Clark and I am the VERY proud daughter of Mr. James W. Decker. I am requesting your help to honor my father as a World War II veteran.
My father is James W. Decker he lives in Aztec, NM at the present time. He is a retired CPA. He is 88 years young and his health is deteriorating faster than our family would like. He has heart problems, prostate cancer, and he is losing his memory slowly.
The reason I am writing you is that my father was hospitalized 4-11-11 from bleeding of the mouth. Anyways, while he was sitting on his hospital bed talking about his old World War II days, (which he loves to share) when my father reminiscences about his war days he always breaks down and cries about his old aircraft he use to fly. He state, “I loved that plane, it always brought me home.”
From that information, I am requesting your help to bring my father’s dream come true. While in the hospital, my father said, “I would give anything to sit in a cock pit of a P-47 again, just more time.” I am trying so hard to make his dream come true.
From that I would like to continue my request to honor my father’s wishes. My father was a 1st Lieutenant in the Army Air Force during World War II. He flew a P-47-D Thunderbolt, 27th Fighter Bomber Group, and 523rd Fighter Squadron. He served his country from 1942-1945. Her flew 69 missions in areas of Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Island around Italy, and Yugoslavia. His flight crew was one of the crews that escorted General Patton. The planes back then did not have radar like the planes now days do.
His aircraft had 8 (eight) 50 calibur guns which would shoot 12 bullets a minute. The bombs weighed 500 lbs each one on each wing and 3 under the belly of the aircraft. I had 6 (six) 5 (five) inch rackets. One on each wing. On the missions that he flew it was usually a crew of 4, 6, 12, or 16 aircrafts in the sky depending upon the missions.
Each mission was to knock out anything in sight. Buildings, houses, tele-a-communications, roads, railroads, trucks, tanks,…..anything is sight.
Each mission was not always safe for him. One incident his right wing was shot off. His missions were to fly as low to the ground as possible to wipe out anything.
This is just a little information on my hero dad James W. Decker. I am requesting your help to seek out a P-47-D Thunderbolt that my father may sit in the cock pit for his last dream to come true. I am looking for a volunteer that owns a P-47-D that would not mind flying into Farmington, NM to let my dad sit in the plane. I know he is 88 years young, but at that age your day is dawn with the 21 gun salute. I told my father I would try everything I could think of to make his dream come true and just cried and cried. Please hlep me make a veterans dream come true. If it was not for the service men in World War II I do not know where our country would be today. I am sincerely hoping I hear from you I do not know where to turn to. Thank you for your co-operation in the matter God Bless.
Vickie Clark work-505 599-8611×1110
Home-505 324-6256
Cell 505 486-2568.
I live in Farmington, NM. My father lives in Aztec, NM.
Please do not let a veteran’s dream be lost or heart broken. Please help my father’s dream come true.
God Bless
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