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02-01-2009, 04:07 PM
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| Junior Member  Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Dorset
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| P47 Thunderbolt Wreckage. Hie, here are a few pics of some wreckage I found in Belgium. I have relatives who live out there, so when I visit I go off detecting. There is a know spot where a P47 crashed (Heyd Ardennes) it has been well dug over the last thirty years. So then, I was happily surprised to find some interesting bits and pieces, one piece was the OIL FILLER hatch mounted front left about 8ft in front of the pilot. It is olive drab, with the masked of demarcation for the anti glare panel, so suggesting an it was a natural aluminium ship, bubble top P47D?. I did also find a piece of curved perspex which makes me sure it was a bubble top. Also the a corner piece of perspex with the right angle to suggest its either from the left or right front canopy. Anyone out there with crash records that could possibly identify the ship. Did he bail, was it flak, fighters? What brought him down.
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02-01-2009, 04:29 PM
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| IP/Mech THE GREAT GAZOO   Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Colorado, USA
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| Now some of those part numbers (93P) match Republic codexes. I'm still looking over all your pictures
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02-01-2009, 04:57 PM
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| Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Dorset
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| Thanks for your efforts buddy, much appreciated, it would be great to identify this ship, as I say it came down near the Belgium village of Heyd, I'm guessing in late '44'.
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02-01-2009, 05:06 PM
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| IP/Mech THE GREAT GAZOO Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Colorado, USA
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| Hopfully some of our other members who have engaged wrecks with dates are reading this and could help... BTW any chance of getting a photo of the reverse side of the larger door? (oil filler)
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02-01-2009, 05:47 PM
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| Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Dorset
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| Hie, there is the other side of the Oil Filler hatch, its not very clear, it was laying this way up for 60 years, so is a bit pitted. Some of the numbers read, as follows: 89P63-295-2 (AS 29 circular stamp).
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02-01-2009, 06:09 PM
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| IP/Mech THE GREAT GAZOO Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Colorado, USA
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| Thanks Jim - yes, it's looking like that part is from a P-47. I'm trying to identify the stamps, they might be from a Republic subcontractor or some other Republic stamps never identified before. The hand written numbers on the other door might either indicate the panel number as called out in the illustrated parts breakdown or a codex matching the specific aircraft it was installed on. Is there any way to confirm that either there were two wrecks in the same area or multiple aircraft were disassembled on the same spot?
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