P-47 Thunderbolts with Malcom Hood

CORSNING said:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=13&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjV6K7Y6ZLmAhW8GTQIHWfkAVoQFjAMegQIARAB&url=https://web.ipmsusa3.org/content/republic-p-47d-malcolm-hood-thunderbolts&usg=AOvVaw1g0ZkXz9V693Zpy03Wc4A0

Some mention of the Malcolm hood in paragraph 16:
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=13&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwje2Oao65LmAhXqJzQIHb2rB7w4ChAWMAJ6BAgEEAE&url=http://joebaugher.com/usaf_fighters/p47_4.html&usg=AOvVaw139fMf21IeHxauxfNOYXL5

All I could find,...so far.

Welcome to the forum Steven. Hope you have a blast here.

Jeff

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Stevenbrown said:

I only recently became aware of the fact of Thunderbolts using Malcolm Hoods. Does anyone know how common this was?

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BiffF15 said:

Nice find and welcome aboard.

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at6 said:

I never knew that there were Malcolm hoods on P-47s. Thanks for posting.

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fubar57 said:

Good pic. I've seen the Malcolm Hood on very few P-47s but I've never seen this version before (grabbed from another site)

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unusual P-47D photo
365th Fighter Group 387 FS P-47 Thunderbolt | World War Photos​

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BiffF15 said:

That looks "liberated" from something else a cut to fit.

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ODonovan said:

My first thought would be a homemade "camera bubble," so the pilot could take photos from the cockpit. The fuselage code is from the 387th Fighter Squadron, 365th Fighter Group, 9th AF. The 365th only flew a few fighter missions before they were trained and utilized as a ground attack unit on 8 March 1944. After that, they flew mostly ground attack missions. Perhaps this is one of the A/C they sent over either before or after their bombing missions, to get photos of the targets.



-Irish

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