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P-38 chash, somewhere in Pacific Islands?

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Looks like a photo of the "Flymarket" at Rockford (prior site to Oshkosh) to me.

Parking brake left on?

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March 25, 1945, Mindoro Island, Philippines.

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P: Noise coming from under instrument panel. Sounds like a midget pounding on something with a hammer.

S: Took hammer away from midget.

Your all wrong, it's the upside-down nose section of a Lockheed F-90 fighter.

Looks like they just unpacked a homebuilt.

See what happens when you "Light UP" in the no smoking zone during refueling.....

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I think that is the rare Lockheed Erector set Lightning kit. Sent to the troops in the Pacific to keep em busy

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Judging from the wreckage not being scattered I'd guess a spin.
Rich

That P-38 tail boom has 18fg/12fs blue and white checkers on it... (I can see in color even though it's B&W!) hope it wasn't another of father-in-law, DOC's wrecks. The poor guy had a rough time there.
I'm getting 13 photos from the report on his Tacloban crash, which is listed as a Take-off accident and the few photos we have are remarked "landing accident/Mindinao". He said he lost 3 P-38s in the south pacific.

Triple OUCH.

maybe taxiing/figure 8 racing?

Dave

Hi Dave,
Actually there yellow for the 44th FS 18th FG.

Not really. The pieces just fluttered down mostly together
March 25, 1944 1Lt Bill French took this P-38L #403 s/n 44-23874 "Hawkeye Hattie" on a test flight to check it out after the induction system was replace in the left engine. The a/c had reoccuring gripes of a shimmy or a shutter at high speeds with various power setting. Bill put her into a dive and around 300mph the overhead canopy failed and blew apart striking Bill in the head and knocking him out cold. When the a/c reached terminal velocity it decinigrated and partically vaporized. Bill (spit out some where in this whole evolution) came to and managed to pull the rip cord at under 500' and got 1 swing from his deployed chute before he hit the ground. The wreckage landed in the 3rd Attack Group living quarters killing 3 men But Bill survived to fight one through VJ-Day. The rear boom in the photo was the largest piece left of the a/c.

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