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Hobby Boss 1/72 P-47D.

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The bubble canopy Jug is my favourite US WW2 fighter. I know most people would say the Mustang but apparently a lot of the pilots who flew both in the war felt the same. Probably the ones that sustained crazy amounts of battle damage and the Thunderbolt still got them home
 
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The bubble canopy Jug is my favorite US WW2 fighter. I know most people would say the Mustang but apparently a lot of the pilots who flew both in the war felt the same. Probably the ones that sustained crazy amounts of battle damage and the Thunderbolt still got them home
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Yeah, no engine cooling plumbing to get shot up like the P-51 or Spitfire.

I always liked the Jug a lot too, even for all it`s less than sexy looks compared to the above, it was all business and a very tough bird to bring down by all my reading and the Discovery channel series "Wings" episode about it back in the nineties.
 
Space Ritual said:
The bubble canopy Jug is my favourite US WW2 fighter. I know most people would say the Mustang but apparently a lot of the pilots who flew both in the war felt the same. Probably the ones that sustained crazy amounts of battle damage and the Thunderbolt still got them home
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PBS showed a documentary that followed one P47 pilot(Quentin Aanenson) throughout his tour of duty. It was called A Fighter Pilots Story. As far as I know they only showed it once. When he followed a buddies plane down I was balling like a baby. His buddy's play was damaged at low altitude. He was still in control of it but it was too low to bail. He was over forest and before he disappeared into the trees he turned around and looked up and waived. That would have been a very tough moment.
 
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The story of the Jug pilot who's plane was so shot to pieces by an FW-190 but kept flying that when the Luftwaffe pilot ran out of ammo he flew alongside and saluted him and he still made it back to England is incredible
 
Loved my UHU. It was all the canopy glass and that rearward facing machine gun made it look so cool
 
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