A Dodge ambulance provides a make-shift bar for 376th Squadron pilots (L-R) Lts. Victor E. Bocquin, Donald T. Woodward, Jimmie C. Wright, Ray S. White, Robert D. Shirmer and Cecil A. Laxton at Bottisham.  

Make-shift bar

Heavy though the aircraft was, the Thunderbolt could be tipped over, as 375th  Squadron pilot Capt. William J. Shackelford discovered while landing his personal P-47D 42-75096, E2:D at Bottisham on 5 February 1944. Even so, he was rescued with only minor injuries and completed his tour credited with one enemy aircraft damaged in the air plus one destroyed and two damaged on the ground.

Flipped Thunderbolt 

Displaying four aerial and four ground victories on the canopy frame, L/Col. Wallace E. Hopkins, P-51D "Ferocious Frankie", 44-13704, B7:H  374th FS lines up for take-off on the steel mat main runway. This Mustang was eventually salvaged after a take-off crash at Little Walden on 9 November 1944.(rudeerude)