Warbird Information Exchange

will this airframe be a flyer or a ground gripper ?

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Gary Lewis
J.A.F.O.

TriangleP, my understanding is that Westpac's P-38 "white 33" is P-38F 42-12652. It was one of the original armament ships that was allocated to the 39th FS. It collided with a Zero over Lae , damaged the wingtip. 42-12652 had a long and well documented career with VFC, eventually being written off in a landing accident at Finchafen when the 36th FS converted to P-38s in 1944. Either the 27th ADG or the 81st ADG converted it to components and buried the airframe during the clean up prior to pulling out. It was recovered from Finchafen along with Jay Robbins P-38J by 75 squadron museum , a group of Australian enthusiasts.

Now "Japanese Sandman II" is a P-38H that crashed in the pattern(albeit thick jungle) at Dobodura and was partially recovered to Australia in the 1990's. I say partial, because the centre wing section and cupola are still at the crashsite, only the outer wings, empenage and booms were recovered. Although I think plans are in place to finish the recovery. This wreckage is owned by Mr Yagen and is/was in storage in Australia.

42-66905's Warbird Registry has not been updated to reflect it's leaving PNG. I think it's the number "33"that is confusing you guys. "Japanese Sandman"is not at westpac. The Westpac P-38's are associated with the FHC in Seattle.

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"If that's a goddamn 'Jug' in front of me, you sure as hell better wiggle your wings." 80FS/8FG Cape Gloucester, December 1943. And the entire 41st Fighter Squadron rocked their wings.

ALWAYS LOOKING FOR P-38 PARTS

First, anybody know what that building on the right side of the photo at Lingayen Airstrip is? Some sort of government building?

Second, am I right in reading that there might still be airframes in the Aleutians? It's a nasty place, sure, but why wouldn't someone have mined that resource already?

Third, Mark, you're getting to where you need your own danged section of WIX! I'm working my butt off in school, and one of my greatest pleasures has come in taking a ten minute break to look at your threads! I literally have to keep a timer set so they don't turn into hour breaks, lest I fall behind...Serves me right for picking Millsaps...

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"I knew the jig was up when I saw the P-51D-20-NA Mustang blue-nosed bastards from Bodney, and by the way the blue was more of a royal blue than an indigo and the inner landing gear interiors were NOT green, over Berlin."

Isn't it virtually impossible now to get any WWII airframe out of Alaska that was written off during WWII because the Alaskan govment has classified them along the lines of historical artifacts and thus protected by the state

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Kind Regards,
Gary Lewis
J.A.F.O.

I have two questions/requests regarding P-38s:

1. I just posted in the B-25D Gunship Mods thread about this literally minutes ago, but I figure it's probably better to ask here. Any pictures of this one:


2. Are there any color pictures of YIPPEE? Apparently, there's this:

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Tri-State Warbird Museum Collections Manager & Museum Attendant

Warbird Philosophy Webmaster

"Flying" magazine had a colour shot of Yippee on the front cover of the August 1944 issue. I have a large print of it that used to hang in my kitchen until I got married.

The print was offered for sale through "Flying" years ago. A search online may turn something up.

AIRPOWER Magazine (before it was murdered in it's sleep by M. O. ) had a period color shot of it on a cover.

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Don't make me go get my flying monkeys-

Even on Superbowl Sunday there's time to post a couple more P-38's .... Yippee!!!!


Milo Burcham ready to fly YIPPEE 5000th P-38 built


Lockheed chief test pilot Milo Burcham flies the 5000th P-38 built on May 17th 1944


Yippee the 5000th P-38 built flown by Milo Burcham on May 17th 1944


YIPPEE P-38 with Milo Burcham at the controls

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Zero Surprise!!...

HO HUM....more P-38s.

Just funnin', son. Just funnin'.

Mudge the appreciative

ps. Who's, or what, is M.O.?

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Land of the free because of the brave

its that puke over at challenge publications known as Michael be-ever-so- O'leary I wouldn't p i s s on him if he was on fire

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Kind Regards,
Gary Lewis
J.A.F.O.

Most excellent work Mark!

I was curious as to the fate of the old bird, so I googled it and found this: P-38 Yippee

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Tri-State Warbird Museum Collections Manager & Museum Attendant

Warbird Philosophy Webmaster

White 33 is being restored to flight for Feenix Partners:

http://www.westpacrestorations.com/inde ... g-white-33

Here is the other P-38 being restored to flight at Westpac for FHC:

http://www.westpacrestorations.com/inde ... lightening

most recent Facebook pics of White 33 (credit: https://www.facebook.com/pages/National ... ts&fref=ts)

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Scott Greenfield

I've been dying for an update from Westpac. Thanks for posting that photo.

Travis

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