P-47D recovery !

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TimAPNY
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Tue Jun 14, 2005 3:07 pm

tom d. friedman wrote:razorback or blown canopy version??


Looks like blown canopy to me.
tom d. friedman
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Tue Jun 14, 2005 4:07 pm

tim, i think your right, as i just got a good look at the windscreen shape & configuration. any word as to mia remains, or personal affects recovered?? best, tom
brewerjerry
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mia ?

Tue Jun 14, 2005 4:13 pm

Hi
Flypast board reports the pilot as POW.
Cheers
Jerry
DanteC
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Tue Jun 14, 2005 5:33 pm

I nabbed this on the Hyperscale Forums:

Update: Martin from Swiss Mustangs has ID'd the pilot and unit:

2/Lt. Henry G. Mohr, Jr. - 405th FG 511th FS, POW for just a few hours as the plane took a bath on V-E day.


What a find!
Joe Scheil
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Tue Jun 14, 2005 6:49 pm

Looks pretty solid. Would be a good airframe for an R-3350 Reno effort turning a Skyraider propeller too. Selling the 50's and a few other parts could raise some good money to go racing!
Jack Cook
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P-47

Tue Jun 14, 2005 7:10 pm

Mohr dosen't appear on the DOD POW database meaning he wasn't considered to be captured. I have a General friend who's a wheel in the P-47 pilots assoc. He's trying to track Mohr down for me.
DaveM2
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Tue Jun 14, 2005 7:40 pm

Mohr was apparently supposed to witness the recovery, but ill health prevented him doing so, as I understand it, his collegue flying the second P-47 was on hand to do so though.

Dave
HarvardIV
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Tue Jun 14, 2005 8:09 pm

Man:

Arggh, shiver me timbers, share some of da booty. :P
tom d. friedman
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Tue Jun 14, 2005 8:51 pm

pow..... that's good news, still alive??? he'd crap his britches if he is, when they tell him his mount was found regards, tom :partyman: :spit2
JägerMarty
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Tue Jun 14, 2005 9:04 pm

Obviously blown canopy from the pics in the link :)
What a find, will be great to see more pics when it's cleaned up, and I wonder what other aircraft are at the bottom of those Austrian lakes?
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Tue Jun 14, 2005 9:58 pm

Great P-47! Congratulations to those responsible for the great recovery. Now the real question is if the Naval Historical Center is going to test the new Title 14 law and chase our fellow aircraft preservers in Europe or just selectively abuse Americans.

Pirate Lex
Dan Johnson II

Tue Jun 14, 2005 10:28 pm

Joe Scheil wrote:Looks pretty solid. Would be a good airframe for an R-3350 Reno effort turning a Skyraider propeller too. Selling the 50's and a few other parts could raise some good money to go racing!


Sure hope you are kidding :)

Gotta restore it back to the day it went down. As authentic as they can make it. How many combat vet Jugs are still out there after all?

Dan
HarvardIV
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Tue Jun 14, 2005 11:14 pm

Someone else said they were wondering about other planes in the bottom of lakes. There has got to be very many. The guy who recovered the Buffalo claimed he found around 50 planes under water in the Karelia, Russia area alone!
dollar65
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Wed Jun 15, 2005 12:06 am

Hi All,

Just found this 1945 picture of the plane
Image
http://www.network54.com/Forum/message? ... 1118804150

from a post by David Walker on the Hyperscale forum
http://www.clubhyper.com/forums/forum.htm

Very nice and exciting recovery :shock:

Laurent
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Rob Mears
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Wed Jun 15, 2005 12:24 am

SWEEEET!! C'mon now, how cool is that?! :D How many actual WWII combat vet survivors are on par with this plane in regard to completeness, originality, and authenticity? In regard to P-47 alone, I'll stick my throat out and venture to say none whatsoever. What are the chances someone could dig up a photo like that on top of everything else? I just hope the plane's pilot is enjoying this as much as the rest of us are. 8)
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