A most colorful Jug.P-47 Razorback &quot;Pudgy, The Flying Hangover&quot; - Clever name.Ship lost on Aug. 18, 1944 with Lt. William Bateman KIA.(rudeerude)
&quot;Pudgy, The Flying Hangover&quot;, a most colorful “Jug”, the P-47D, razor-back canopy, 42-7539 of 65th Fighter Squadron “Fighting Cocks”, USAAF’s 57th Fighter Group. The photo was took during the 57th FG’s deployment in Corsica, Alto Airfield, (from 24 March to 19 September 1944) for air-to-ground missions over the Southern France. The fate of “Pudgy” was tragic: according to Missed Air Crew Report #8095, after an attack against German military trucks, near the Durance river, in Province, August 18, 1944, his pilot, 2 Lt. William Bateman, strafing a power station, collided with a high tension line. In the impact with the terrain the plane was destroyed and Bateman was killed. The Bateman’s body was recovered by civilians French and buried on Sainte Tulle Cemetery. Victor Sierra

"Wicked Wabbit" gets a wash by ground crew

"Wicked Wabbit" wash

Original caption: "This B-17G-75-BO (s/n 43-38071) landed at Brustem Airfield in Belgium on March 17,1945 after a mid-air collision with another B-17G (s/n 43-38046). Both aircraft were from the 490th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force.This plane took off with its standard crew of 10 but landed with 11 aboard...one dead. The body of radio operator (Sgt. George Devlin) from the other B-17 was somehow thrown into the nose of this aircraft during the collision."