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Hello,
hope I am posting this in the correct area.

http://www.archive.org/details/thunderbolt

A movie made in 1944 about Thunderbolts in Italy. Some pretty neat pictures of both Bubble canopies and uhmm... Flush back canopy Thunderbolts.
Hope you enjoy,
Arty

I think I have a VHS tape of this show that I got by buying a case of AeroShell oil in the 80's.

Phil

Arty, thanks for the link! Cool stuff! You're ok for a "tank" guy but a lot of people thought the Jug was one as well.

My Pop flew these in China, Burma, and India so I am quite partial to the Thunderbolt.

By the way, the term is Razorback for the versions that did not have the bubble canopy.

Welcome to the Forum!

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Thanks for the kind reply Sdennison,

[quote="sdennison"]
By the way, the term is Razorback for the versions that did not have the bubble canopy.
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I was trying to poke some fun at some of the fellows in one of the mustang threads, regarding wether a flush deck canopy P-51 ia also a razorback. (I truly have no idea.)

A quick question, one the P-47's is emblazoned with the name "Hun Hunter XIV" Does this mean there were 13 other Hun Hunters?

Thank you for looking,
Arty

I've got two VHS copies (one a Shell Oil freebie) and it's in at least one of my DVD collections as well. Great footage, and not just the gun-camera stuff - ya gotta love that field laundry!

BTW, the entire archives of the 57th Fighter Group are at the New England Air Museum. The group was the first unit stationed at Bradley Field when it was built. NEAM has a great display featuring many artifacts from the unit. If you remember the bar they are drinking at in the film, it is actually is on display at NEAM on loan from NASM. Also, there is a P-47 in the middle of the display!
Jerry

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I saw this movie as a youngster...

This part always stuck out in my mind:

<strafe run on a train>

"Well, I guess there's nothin' in....."

<train explodes>

"...there."

To this day I wish that I could strafe a train.

Well Randy, at least if the opportunity comes your way, you got the right ride for the job !

Very true!

I got that movie, and a few others off of Ebay (zenos, I think) for my father in law. He really liked the train strafing. I liked seeing the assembly video myself, where they uncrated a new Jug and flew it away using nothing more than hand tools and manpower.

B

Mine favorite is...

<sees motorcyclist>

"Wonder who that is?"

<Brrrrrrrrrp>

"No friend of mine!"



To be more specific, you do mean a STEAM train, right?

Heard this story when I was volunteering at Bob Pond's museum in MN:

A Jug was strafing a train, going in on the deck. He hit the boiler on the first pass. It blew up right in front of him, and he flew right through the cloud of steam and debris. WHAM!

As he pulled up, the engine started making a helluva racket. He grabbed some altitude and tried to sort things out. Airplane flying - check. Controls responsive - check. Engine running - mostly. It's clearly not a happy powerplant, but it's still going.

He pulls back the power and nurses the ship back to base. As he clatters up to the hardstand, his crew chief squints at the front of the plane with that, "What the hell did you do to my aiplane this time, flyboy?" look.

As the plane gets closer his expression changes, and he just shakes his head as the engine grinds into silence. As the pilot unstraps, the crew chief grabs a ladder and a crowbar. He climbs up and extracts the chunk of debris that had knocked out the bottom two cylinders in the front row of the Pratt & Whitney R-2800.

The pilot jumps to the ground, and the sergeant hands him the chunk of locomotive he'd carried home - a large brass bell.

A good yarn but I don't think a large brass bell would make it past the Prop and no self-respecting crew chief would use a crowbar

Phil

One just gotta love a guy with a goal in life...

(Think there might be material for a T-shirt here)

T J

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One day I'll make my 'Warbird Wear' line. And I mean interesting and cool shirts that you really dont see now. Hopefully there will be some market for em. It would be a nice break from all the photo-shirts that just show one plane.

Id rather have that retro/ stylish look. I know some dumb kid like me will buy em. I would try and include different varieties and whatnot. Im gonna mull this idea over for awhile.

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