Aircraft Call Letter - 313th Fighter Squadron, 50th Fighter Group

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ssr481

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Dec 28, 2020
A shot in the dark, but figured I'd try. I am researching the aircraft - a P-47D-22-RE Thunderbolt s/n 42-25986, flown by Lt. Forrest Chilton III on 21 June 1944, when he disappeared over the Channel coming back from a raid on St. Quentin.. he took anti-aircraft fire over the target and lost oil pressure over the Channel where he was forced to bail out and ultimately disappeared.

His younger brother is a neighbour of mine and I'm trying to compile as much information as I can ...
 
No.. I have a contact at the Archives in College Park and have also reached out to the USAF AFHRA at Maxwell AFB...
 
Squadron code was "W3", made 6619 only 4 pages. Perhaps acquiring the pilots IDPA(?) Report would give more .
 
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Squadron code was "W3", made 6619 only 4 pages. Perhaps acquiring the pilots IDPA(?) Report would give more .

Already in the works... don't know when I'll get it though. NPRC is shut down and they're only doing emergency requests at the present time. I have 3 of the 4 MACR pages and have a source working on 6619 now. The one page I'm missing is mostly blank, so not a big deal.
 

The link I posted above includes four pages, why don't you just download and print a copy from the link?
The "mostly blank" one.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodst...301-02400/images/02394_Row0001_Column0012.jpg
 

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