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« Reply #200 on: August 19, 2017, 11:06:20 pm » |
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Yes, the left engine was lost. He was getting the crew ready to bail out. He considered landing in a river but then a cornfield appeared through the cloud cover and he thought it the better option.
We do not know if the photo is from after the war or not. We only know that it was taken in 1945. If the incident did not take place after the war had ended, it was really close to the end. He was stationed in Pomigliano, Italy at the time and flying supplies to the partisans in Yugoslavia.
We also do not know why he chose to belly land the plane. We just assumed it was due to uneven terrain.
You mentioned that details from the photo make it appear that it was after the war. Can you tell me what photo details lead you to think this?
Thank you!
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« Reply #201 on: August 19, 2017, 11:23:49 pm » |
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You mentioned that details from the photo make it appear that it was after the war. Can you tell me what photo details lead you to think this? Two things: you wrote it was 1945, It doesn't look like spring, land is hard and not muddy, corns are cut. Also partisan uniforms look very tidy, which would be unusual for war. That is a feeling of course, I wouldn't bet a money on it. |
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« Reply #202 on: August 19, 2017, 11:40:20 pm » |
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Interesting points about the ground, uniform, and corn. His squadron (12th Troop Carrier Squadron) was moved to Trinidad in early June of 1945, so I think it had to be before that. My best guess is April of 1945 based on a description of an aircraft with serial number 42-23465 on Joseph Baugher's USAAF serial number website that appears to have been lost in similar circumstances and around the same time as what my husband's grandfather had described when he was alive. That plane became Yugoslav Air Force's 7301. Would love to find more information on 7301 to try to confirm a match, but doubt the information is out there.
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« Reply #203 on: August 20, 2017, 09:34:14 am » |
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cn 9327 JRV 7301/7310 C-47A-5-DL Yugoslav Air Force mfd 02apr43 USAAF s/n 42-23465; condemned 27apr45; d/d 1945; w/o when crashed near Ljubovija (western Serbia/now bordering with Bosnia),
This Dakota was repaired and imposed to YU AF at april 25th 1945.
Later became YU AF 7301 and in sept. 1953. was re-numbered and became 7310.
Served till 1966. and withdrawn from service, scrapped.
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« Reply #204 on: September 18, 2017, 09:52:42 pm » |
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255 u Otočcu, malo dotjeran...
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« Reply #205 on: September 19, 2017, 05:10:13 pm » |
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Dakota u muzeju u Krakowu
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« Reply #206 on: September 19, 2017, 07:31:27 pm » |
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Dakota u muzeju u Krakowu
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Zadnji primjerak koji je služio u ex SFRJ na kraju kao platforma opreme za kalibražu...
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« Reply #208 on: April 21, 2018, 03:55:47 pm » |
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Gde je ovo?
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