USAAF P-47 Thunderbolt fighter planes operating at Florennes/Juzaine Airfield (A-78), Belgium, during World War 2. Identifiable units include the 411th Fighter Squadron (U9); the 373rd Fighter Group; the 387th Fighter Squadron (B4) and 388th Fighter Squadron (C4) of the 365th Fighter Group. A number of P-47s, (mostly bubble canopy D models) seen taxiing. (The second one's tail number looks like 42-26571, but that aircraft was downed in October 1944. So it is probably 26579.) Crew chiefs ride the wings of most P-47s to guide the pilots during low speed taxi when they would otherwise have to zig-zag to see ahead. Destroyed building silhouetted against the sky.Two flights of four P-38s circle overhead and peel off for landing.View through breached wall of a jeep towing a bomb cart past a parked P-47. Airmen walking across the field. Clear view of 388th Fighter Squadron P-47 taxiing. Another P-47 taxiing past a small damaged building
Various United States fighter and bomber aircraft at Florennes/Juzaine Airfield (A-78) in Belgium, during World War 2. Three P-38s and two P-47s land on the runway. One P-61Black Widow, from the 422nd Night Fighter Squadron, takes off and is seen in flight, overhead. P-38 Lightning and A-26 Invader approach for landing. Several P-38s and P-47s take off. A B-17G Flying Fortress takes off. P-47s with bubble canopy take off. (Note:P-38s are from 474th and 428th Fighter Groups, and P-47s are from 365th Fighter Group, 388th Fighter Squadron.)
Various United States fighter and bomber aircraft at an airfield in Belgium. [Slate states airfield # 78, which would be Florennes/Juzaine Airfield, Belgium. But it may actually be Le Culot Airfield (A-89) where P-47s of the 36th and 373rd Fighter Groups were based.] A large number of P-47 Thunderbolt fighter planes parked on a flight line. A B-17G Flying Fortress bomber parked in background. P-47s with bubble canopies taxi in single file from the flight line along a curved taxi strip.
Various United States fighter aircraft , including those of 36th and 373rd Fighter Groups, on Le Culot Airfield (A-89), Beauvechain, Belgium. P-47 Thunderbolt fighter plane cartoon insignias on nose art include the following P-47 names: De Poiple Shaft III, B-3, Little Rocket, Hazel Honey, Easy's Angels and Bitterbitcher III. P-38 Lightning planes in flight.
A damaged U.S. P-38 Lightning aircraft in Belgium. Ground crewmen work around a damaged P-38 Lightning aircraft. Tents around the damaged P-38.
Three U.S. Army Air Forces P-38 aircraft fly overhead and peel off to begin landing at an airfield in Belgium, during World War 2. . A formation flight of Four P-47 Thunderbolt fighter planes follows, peeling off to land. One of the P-47s, a "razor back" from the 387th Fighter Squadron (yellow cowl band, coded "B4"), 365th Fighter Group, is seen landing on the runway, with its canopy open.
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