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Im needing a little help if any one has any leads! :?

Im looking for pics of P-47's from the 318th FG, 342FS. So far im not coming up with much!! Please let me know if anyone has information! Im looking for color schemes and if they flew bubble tops or mostly razorbacks...Specifically on Lt.Col. George A. Davis.

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Do you know if the 318th FS that flew P-47's is the same as the 318th Fighter Interceptor Squadron that flew F-106's out of McChord Air Force Base during the 70's? Let me know if there is a connection.
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Do you know if the 318th FS that flew P-47's is the same as the 318th Fighter Interceptor Squadron that flew F-106's out of McChord Air Force Base during the 70's? Let me know if there is a connection.


Im not really sure...I eneded up with a project in my lap with a quick deadline.

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Sorry guys but your off the mark here.
The 318th FS flew P-40s/47s/51s in the MTO as part of the 325th FG
Checkertail Clan. This is your 318th FIS.

The 348th FG flew in the SWP with P-47s/51s and consisted of the
340th/341st/342nd/460th Fighter Squadrons.

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The 348th FG flew razorbacks from their start in early 43 through about mid 44 when they started to transition into bubbletops. They flew a mix of the two until they switched to P-51Ds. I've just been doing research on them for a project at work and have a bit of material close at hand. What time period are you looking for info on?

The best source for photos and markings info is a book called "Kearby's Thunderbolts." It is a typically magnificent Osprey produced work.

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I believe the book was published by Schiffer, rather than by Osprey.

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Yep, you're right. Schiffer not Osprey. That's what I get for doing this stuff at midnight.

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During WW2, George Andrew Davis was assigned to the 342nd FS/ 348th FG / 5th AF and was able to score 7 victories. During the Korean War he was assigned to the 4th Fighter Intercepter Wing and scored 14 victories

The only photo I could find of Davis with one of his 'RAZORBACK' P-47Ds, was in two books called "ACES of the SOUTHWEST PACIFIC" and FIGHTER ACES OF THE USA.

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I believe I may have a photo of Davis in a P-47 and standing by a P-80.

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FIGHTER ACES OF THE USA (Schiffer publishing, page 315)

"Lieutenant Colonel George A. Davis made ace in WW2 with seven victories during service with the Fifth Air Force. A Texan from Dublin in the Lone Star State, Davis had a unquenchably aggressive spirit to go with his ace piloting and Marksmanship. In the Korean War, Davis became the first double jet ace with his tenth victory on 13 December 1951.
Davis lost his life on 10 February 1952, while engaging a greatly superior force of MiGs. He downed two MiGs before hits sent him crashing into a mountainside, thirty miles south of the Yalu. Davis is believed to have been shot down by the soviet pilot Mikhail Averin, of the 148th Fighter Regiment, 97th Fighter Division. Davis was top-scoring jet ace of the Korean War at the time of his demise, with fourteen victories in that conflict. Only thirty-five American aces since the inception of aerial combat have downed more than twenty aircraft. Davis is one of them. He was awarded the Medal of Honor."

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Lightning wrote:

The only photo I could find of Davis with one of his 'RAZORBACK' P-47Ds, was in two books called "ACES of the SOUTHWEST PACIFIC" and FIGHTER ACES OF THE USA.

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Any way you can scan the Razorback pic???

Here is the web page that I have for Mr. Davis

http://www.acepilots.com/korea/george.html

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Howdy Elroy

I dont actually own a scanner, so I am unable to send you the photo

ACES of the SOUTHWEST PACIFIC (by Gene B.Stafford - Squadron/Signal publication) would probably be your best bet

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OK...well thank you anyway!!! :drink3:

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