Any info on this P-47D unit please?

[ICDP]

I would like some info on this P-47D unit but have found nothing.  Even looking for the serial number states nothing for the unit, only confirms it was a P-47D-30-RA.  I see no D-Day invasion stripes but it was a 1944 produced aircraft, so if it is based in England then it would be the spring.  Or is it Italy?

 

http://p-47.database.pagesperso-orange.fr/Database/44-xxxxx.htm

 

Can anyone identify this unit or even the theatre of operations?

[=362nd_FS=RoflSeal]

49 minutes ago, ICDP said:

I would like some info on this P-47D unit but have found nothing.  Even looking for the serial number states nothing for the unit, only confirms it was a P-47D-30-RA.  I see no D-Day invasion stripes but it was a 1944 produced aircraft, so if it is based in England then it would be the spring.  Or is it Italy?

 

http://p-47.database.pagesperso-orange.fr/Database/44-xxxxx.htm

 

Can anyone identify this unit or even the theatre of operations?

 

https://archives.delaware.gov/digital-archives/photograph-exhibits/dover-air-force-base-the-early-years/

1945 – FIGHTER PILOTS TRAIN AT DOVER FOR COMBAT — Geared for simulated combat flights under the guidance of seasoned combat veteran instructors at the Dover Army Air Field, are these young pilots who head for their P-47 Thunderbolts during one on their regular training sessions. The Dover Army Air Field is on of the score of First Air Force bases along the Eastern Seaboard which are training pilots for aerial warfare around the world. Observing its fourth anniversary on Tuesday (Jan. 16), the First Air Force is an armed unit of some 50,000 men commanded by Major General Frank O’D. Hunter. Dover airfield was activated Dec. 17, 1941, ten days after Pearl Harbor, and has been utilized as a fighter training base for pilots since 1943.

 

[ICDP]

2 minutes ago, RoflSeal said:

https://archives.delaware.gov/digital-archives/photograph-exhibits/dover-air-force-base-the-early-years/
 

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1945 – FIGHTER PILOTS TRAIN AT DOVER FOR COMBAT — Geared for simulated combat flights under the guidance of seasoned combat veteran instructors at the Dover Army Air Field, are these young pilots who head for their P-47 Thunderbolts during one on their regular training sessions. The Dover Army Air Field is on of the score of First Air Force bases along the Eastern Seaboard which are training pilots for aerial warfare around the world. Observing its fourth anniversary on Tuesday (Jan. 16), the First Air Force is an armed unit of some 50,000 men commanded by Major General Frank O’D. Hunter. Dover airfield was activated Dec. 17, 1941, ten days after Pearl Harbor, and has been utilized as a fighter training base for pilots since 1943.
 

 

 

 

 

Excellent info and very fast work, much appreciated thanks. ?

[OG_FC]

What is the serial # on the tail I can't make it out

43-25636

P-47D-21-RA

58th

311th

?

Amerrissage le 21/10/44 vers Batanta Island (Nouvelle-Guinée) - Pilote : Robert W. Powell - ASR - Mauvais temp

[=362nd_FS=RoflSeal]

16 hours ago, 51st_FC said:

What is the serial # on the tail I can't make it out

43-25636

P-47D-21-RA

58th

311th

?

Amerrissage le 21/10/44 vers Batanta Island (Nouvelle-Guinée) - Pilote : Robert W. Powell - ASR - Mauvais temp

44-32696 

[Poochnboo]

Yeah, as soon as I saw the picture I knew that it was taken at a stateside training base. First hint? That isn't the way airplanes were parked in a combat area. Second one..those are stateside call letters and numbers on the side of the Jug. 

[ICDP]

Great info guys, it is great this community has such a wealth of expertise.

[II/JG17_HerrMurf]

Also interesting that they appear to be uniformly kitted from the waist up but completely individualized in their choice of trousers and footwear.

[Heliopause]

Anybody know what's stuck under the P-47 belly?

 

 

[HBPencil]

Looks rather like a practice bomb dispenser, like this:

[Pajeka]

13 hours ago, II/JG17_HerrMurf said:

Also interesting that they appear to be uniformly kitted from the waist up but completely individualized in their choice of trousers and footwear.

 

Possibly Flight Instructors (1st & 2nd from Left) walking their students out to their respective aircraft?? They appear to be wearing different type/colour flying suits (note leg pockets and trousers protruding from trainees leggings) which perhaps allows personnel to differentiate between trainees and Staff/Instructors - Just a guess...