Here is the same pdf after I ran OCR on it. This makes is searchable as well as straighter. I is now only 83MB. I trimmed the top and bottom of each page. Hopefully, you will find this useful.
A few thoughts:
In the book: The 9th Air Force in WWII by Ken C. Rust
It was noted that the 410 FS had no band on the nose of the P-47 (but noted that some had black nose bands).
Remember that the P-47s in the ETO were delivered with black noses and tail bands. It may be that it was not worth...
(Typos courtesy of Adobe Acrobat Pro 9.5 Optical Character Recognition)
From:
AN 01-85FD-2 1 March 1948
Erection and Maintenance
Handbook
for
NAVY MODELS
F8F-1, -1B, -IN
F8F-2, -2N
AIRPLANES
(THE INFORMATION ON THE F8F-2 AND -2N AIRPLANES
IS PRELIMINARY INFORMATION)
THIS PUBLICATION...
Note in the first of the photos in my post shows that "Ole ****" has the original cowling flaps. Subsequent photos show that the later cowling flaps were installed. This is fairly common if the a/c lasted that long. The screenshots are from DVD's from Sam Sox, Jr (author and archivist). This...