345thFS, 350thFG, Aircraft, NOT P-47 or P-39, WWII
350thPhotoProject 998
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B-24 Liberator, and
the photo of the Hurricane itself is Hurricane IIc Serial Number KX857.
Air Britains RAF Aircraft KA100-KZ999 gives KX857 as one of a batch of 1455 Hurricane IIB, IIC, IID, and IVs delivered from Hawkers Kingston and Langley factorys between 11/1942 and 5/1943, noting that it went to the Middle East and that there was No Further Trace.
That "no further trace' no doubt being it's movement to 345th where I believe it is the one converted to two seat. In the photo you have it's still a single seater before the ground crews converted it. The battered condition matches the photo of the two seat cockpit shot.
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345thFS, 350thFG, Aircraft, Bombers, Hurricane, NOT P-47 or P-39, WWII
350thPhotoProject 5
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Aircraft, BT-13, Chote, LostandFound, NOT P-47 or P-39, Shifflet Collection
350thPhotoProject 525
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345thFS, 350thFG, Aircraft, NOT P-47 or P-39, WWII
350thPhotoProject 618
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The Bf 109 tail, with the number 16193, comes from Messerschmitt Bf 109 G-4/Trop Werk Nummer 16193 of the III. Gruppe of Jagdgeschwader 53, which suffered 35 per cent damage in a crash-landing at Tunis on 4 May 1943. So I guess the 350th FG personnel found the tail piece after Tunis was captured.
information from Andrew Arthy
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345thFS, 350thFG, Aircraft, Flak and Wrecks, Not 350thFG, NOT P-47 or P-39, WWII
350thPhotoProject 111
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PBY Catalina, location unkown
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345thFS, 350thFG, Aircraft, NOT P-47 or P-39, WWII
350thPhotoProject 133
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Italian Trainers-Junk yard?
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345thFS, 350thFG, Aircraft, Flak and Wrecks, NOT P-47 or P-39, WWII
350thPhotoProject 254
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RAF Hurricane KX857
This Hurricane was in the 345th's Squadron Photo album. I scanned the same photo in 347th Ken Smith's photo album.
From Hugh:
The last Hurricane is a photograph taken by Charles Banks, 347 Sq. photographer at Ghisonaccia, Corsica, in December 44, shortly after the ground crews arrived there from No. Africa. It was an aircraft assigned to an RAF Squadron that was one of the first allied combat units to arrive on Corsica after the Krauts pulled out in September or early October 43.
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345thFS, 350thFG, Aircraft, Hurricane, NOT P-47 or P-39, WWII
350thPhotoProject 259
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French aircraft? "Honest Hank" Lutz-driver wih Art Akin (Crew Chief)
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345thFS, 350thFG, Aircraft, Enlisted, NOT P-47 or P-39, People, WWII
350thPhotoProject 20
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Catalina was used to patrol the South Atlantic against u-boats. The photo was taken circa 1944 and probably the place is Galeão Air Force Base
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1BFS, 350thFG, Aircraft, NOT P-47 or P-39, Original Color, WWII
350thPhotoProject 2103
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345thFS, 350thFG, Aircraft, NOT P-47 or P-39, P-40, WWII
350thPhotoProject 2869
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Spitfire MK VIII from the 308 FS 31 FG.Pilot is Major Thorsen CO of the 308FS about Feburary 1944
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Aircraft, NOT P-47 or P-39, WWII
350thPhotoProject 2419
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347thFS, 350thFG, Aircraft, NOT P-47 or P-39, WWII
347thKT-0010 23
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Junkers Ju-87 Stuka dive bomber
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Aircraft, Flak and Wrecks, Not 350thFG, NOT P-47 or P-39
350thPhotoProject 2083
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345thFS, 350thFG, Aircraft, NOT P-47 or P-39, WWII
350thPhotoProject 2515
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347thFS, 350thFG, Aircraft, NOT P-47 or P-39, WWII
350thPhotoProject 2518
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Junkers Ju-87 Stuka dive bomber
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347thFS, 350thFG, Aircraft, NOT P-47 or P-39, WWII
350thPhotoProject 2528
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347thFS, 350thFG, Aircraft, NOT P-47 or P-39, WWII
