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A Pilot evacuates his burning F6F-3 fighter aboard USS Cowpens (CVL-25) after landing. The pilot was Lieutenant (JG) Alfred W. Magee, Jr. The fire started as the Hellcat approached Cowpens for an emergency landing, and the pilot was unaware of it until after touchdown. The firefighters put out the flames in a minute and a half, with no casualties. November 24th, 1943.

 
Airframes said:
Think it's a 75 mm, possibly PAK.
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I could not distinguish between the 88 mm and the 75 mm cannon. Either one, at the muzzle area, would "scramble your eggs" in a heartbeat-Hansie

Wurger said:
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Nice looking shoes- Peel of Bond Street perhaps. Vented Norfolk jacket, full cuffed breeches- I am sure he is wearing a tie as well. No one dresses like a British gentleman, that's for sure...
 
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