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sdennison · **Posted:** Tue Dec 29, 2009 12:55 pm

So we have all seen the "toilet bomb" hung under the wing but I just read the He!! Hawks book about the 365th FS and as they were transferring over to France after D Day, they flew a couple crew chiefs over in cut out aux. fuel tanks under a P-47 because they needed them right away! :shock:

That would be one heck of a ride! The book said "quite against the rules at the time". Ya think? Innovative those lads.

Django · **Posted:** Tue Dec 29, 2009 3:55 pm

That's NUTS! :shock:

Warbird Kid · **Posted:** Tue Dec 29, 2009 3:56 pm

I remember seeing a photo of a tear drop gas tank attached to a P-38 pylon with a plexiglas nose cut out and a photographer inside! :shock:

warbird1 · **Joined:** Fri Sep 21, 2007 6:25 pm **Posts:** 2760

Warbird Kid wrote:

I remember seeing a photo of a tear drop gas tank attached to a P-38 pylon with a plexiglas nose cut out and a photographer inside! :shock:

As I recall, the infamous picture of the P-38's and Corsairs firing rockets into the side of the hill on Okinawa? or Iwo Jima? by the Time-Life photographer was accomplished that way.

airnutz · **Posted:** Tue Dec 29, 2009 4:39 pm

Warbird Kid wrote:

I remember seeing a photo of a tear drop gas tank attached to a P-38 pylon with a plexiglas nose cut out and a photographer inside! :shock:

Ditto..I've seen that photo before, but just before the holidays a friend showed me a copy
he'd recieved in an e-mail. He didn't get the reaction he was expecting..."Oh yeah..that old thing.":wink:

Dave Lindauer · **Posted:** Tue Dec 29, 2009 4:45 pm

I bet these same crew chiefs took steps to made certain that these "drop tanks" didn't!

John Dupre · **Posted:** Tue Dec 29, 2009 8:49 pm

When the German Jadgeschwader 52 was retreating from some exposed field on the eastern front once, they took the radios out of the aircraft and were able to shoe horn two or three ground crew into each of their Bf 109s.

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