1957 Last USAF Mustang Retires
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Oh O.K. I wasn't sure I just remember my grandpa telling me he was in the 8th Air force then after the war (I think when they broke away) they merged with the 20th Air force. He told me as a mechanic and test pilot that right before the merge he worked on the Enola gay. He said they put 14 radio's and a dozen radar sets in it and it never worked correctly again. Evey Time I talk ww2 he tells that story with a smile, like he's standing right next to it again.
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@bad74maverick1 The USAF was created in 1947
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@140Robbie the Army Air Force was ended in 1945 wasn't it?
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El salvador was the last county to fight a war with this airplane in 1969 againts Honduras.
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actually it's the USAAF
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I remember the AD's were the Navy AD-1 Skyraiders... which were replaced by the A-6 Intruder... I have worked on Intruders back in the day and when I was younger I had the chance to work on a Mustang that flew out of our local airfield from time to time... Love the sound of the rolls Royce Merlin engine!! It was very distinctive when it flew over... Using this type of plane as a ground attack plane was problematic as the radiator was under the plane and vulnerable to ground fire
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@N101RG My dad used to work on those as a civilian aircraft mechanic. He used to call them "ADs", their old USN designation. In Korea, ADs and AU-1 corsairs were blue. When Chinese prisoners were asked what they were most afraid of, they'd often answer "blue planes." ADs could ship a lot of napalm, and could ruin a human wave attack.
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@71tankerman IRRC in 1950 F-47D/M's were all delegated to ANG units east of the Mississippi River. F-51Ds just happened to be where the action was. You're right though. Water-cooled engine and ground-attack = FAIL, at least when there's lots of flak around.
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@Auggie56 They should have used the P-47 for the ground attack mission in Korea-- more survivable to ground fire and it packed a bigger punch.
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I don't think so ... I was at
k-55 and at k-18
n1014f 3 years ago