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Clean32

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Apr 21, 2019
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i am looking for information or links etc on P61 flights for January february 1945 china Vietnam laos areas any help appreciated .
 
Night Fighter Nut said:
You could look up night fighter squadron organizations. I believe Erich could help you best since he has done extensive research into night fighter squadrons as I recall.
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thanks, bases and ops for that period.
 
Night Fighter Nut said:
I'm checking my resources. Will post something if I find anything. :)
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it would be brilliant if you could locate the american equivalent of 540 for the nights of the 21,22,23 of who ever was operating night fighters over southern china northern vietnam. i assume p61s i have read P61s but this may not be the case as i know very little about this theater and night fighters.
 
Ok here is what I have found. Between those dates that you gave, there was a detachment of P-61s from the 427th NFS assigned to Kunming, China from December 18, 1944 to August 16, 1945. Elements of the Kunming detachment operated out of Chengkung, Chihkiang and Nanning at various periods during Jan.- Aug. 1945. These were the closest units to the area in question and a very high probability that they had the planes you're looking for. From, "Northrop P-61 Black Widow (the complete history and combat record)."
 
Night Fighter Nut said:
A plane from Suichwan airfield on Jan 22 1945 from the 427th NFS shot down an American plane that had not identified itself.
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Brilliant, thank you.
I have never come across the book you refenced, all though i have spent many years looking at liberators in burma. since i got take to a couple of crashed ones just over 25 years ago in Burma while i was working there.
Funny how one little bit of information opens a flood of more info.
Now i want to track down this C 87 that was shot down on the 22.1.45

Thanks again
 
According to my book it had nine. If you google 427th NFS and read down in the history section, you will come across the account written word for word from the book I found it in. The plane had flown into a restricted area and wouldn't answer any radio challenges. I don't know where the plane came from nor who it was attached to. Probably need to find units that used that kind of aircraft and where the routs were. West Point Academy has maps of the tactical situation around that time frame.
 
Night Fighter Nut said:
According to my book it had nine. If you google 427th NFS and read down in the history section, you will come across the account written word for word from the book I found it in. The plane had flown into a restricted area and wouldn't answer any radio challenges. I don't know where the plane came from nor who it was attached to. Probably need to find units that used that kind of aircraft and where the routs were. West Point Academy has maps of the tactical situation around that time frame.
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exactly. the only c87 lossed on that day / nigh was flying to hawaii loaded with brass so that was a big loss. that i have found so far.

all i can seem to google is wiki. that says the same, did you have a different site?
 
Night Fighter Nut said:
Only my book and what I could find via maps of south east asia during ww2,
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just ordered the book. thanks for the lead.

There is a guy in canada who is full on liberators ill touch base with him about this C87. i suspect it was not actually a c87. but i really need to know the operational area of this instadent before i can come to a conclusion. which at this time is little more than one attacked, one shot down, two damaged and crashed. same night, same theater. no japanese aircraft in area ( ie no japanese aircraft left)
 
Night Fighter Nut said:
Have to go to work now, what is the great interest in this one event?
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Just me, i get hooked on something and just dig. sometimes you come up with some interesting things, surprises.
I just posed in another thread about 1 russian communication which was captured by the french which should have stopped the russians from getting to paris enabling napoleon to then wheel north to smack the auntant to smithereens. no island imprisonment and no waterloo.. french archives still have it, as do the russians. it was not until i got my hands on it that i realised that it was written in some obscure latvian dialect. it took 2 1/2 months to locate some old latvian school teacher who was a spritely 92 who could translate it. just to confirm the official translations in to french and russian so why didn't the french act on it? simply thay could not read it. a communication from one russian officer to another who were known to each other and were from the same district of latvia, so why would they not use a common language and just as well they did. just as im digging on this one. there is a nugget there i can smell it. have a good day at work, Im off to bed.
 
All I could find for the time frame was a C-109 lost. I also checked the 21st and 23rd

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