Memory from long ago is referred to as crystalized memory. It includes this like long friends from childhood or things they used to do. Reminiscing therapy is good with or without photos etc. Good luck.

@@dr.barrycohn5461 He said had man. My Grandpa had a similar thing.

@@_MrTrue and then said "He has no idea who his grandchildren..." Indicating present tense. So either there is a typo given the proximity of the S and D keys, or the comment is valid. The OP left that for the reader to decide on if the glass is half full, or half empty.

Awesome thing to do with your Gramps; you are a good soul spending time with him.

Nice man good comment

DAMN, man. Hell of a GREAT comment. Bet that P-47J was an M1A1 of the air.

Here are the stats on that: About the same number of P-51s were built as the P-47. But, the P-47 was in the war a year longer than the P-51 (in appreciable operational quantity). The P-47 flew 746,000 sorties in Europe while the P-51 only flew 213,873. P47 losses were 3,752 while the P-51 losses amounted to 2,520 The P-47 killed 3,499 enemy a/c in the air while the P-51 killed 4,950 ( (P-47 ratio .004/sortie, P-15 -.023) Loss ratios per sortie: P47- .005 / sortie, P51-.011/sortie So, if you flew the P-47 one thousand missions- you would get shot down on just 5 of those missions. If you flew a P-51 one thousand missions, you would get shot down on 11 of those missions. But, if you were trying to become an Ace, you would want to fly the P-51- 23 kills per thousand missions P-47s only managed to shoot down 4 enemy aircraft per one thousand missions. But, the kill ratios of the two fighters is rather unfair. The P-47 was primarily used in the fighter/bomber, ground attack role, while the P-51was used mainly as a high altitude escort. Additionally, the P-51 sorties averaged about 3 times the actual air time as the P-47 due to the long range capability of the P-51, so the P-51s were actually exposed to enemy defended airspace a little longer than the P-47.

@@acadman4322 also, the P51 was introduced a lot earlier when the Germans still had more fight in em... So higher kill and loss rates .. the Jugs came in a bit later replacing the Spitfires and P38's in well seasoned squadrons.. So lower loss rates and better air superiority (less enemies in the air) so lower kill rates

Tyrone Marcucci they are my favorite fighter of the era, closely followed by the maligned P39/P63's. But the P47 was the absolute best flown in every theater!

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Cool!

I was privileged to see one land once. One of its tires blew out and it veered off the runway. Then it nosed down and the propeller sliced into the ground. Pilot was OK fortunately but the plane was stuck there over a week. You can't exactly walk into Walmart and ask for a P-47 Thunderbolt tire and propeller!

@J.R. Bussard It's actually pretty amazing that it was only a week or so before that plane left again. If a propeller hits the ground, in most circumstances you have to tear down the entire engine to inspect for damage, and usually there will be some... and engine parts for Pratt & Whitney Twin Wasps aren't exactly easy to come by these days.

Nice!

WOW, man. The father of my ex-girlfriend flew an F-U Corsair off the USS Princeton on ground attack missions over Korea. GREAT man. And I am SURE you are one, too.

Well of course! You can't fly a plane by just staring at the gauges

yep.

It never had the kind of impact on the Germans the Mustang did.

@@thethirdman225 true, but it could take a beating. better than the Mustang, and ,...come home , when the P51 wouldn't. just saying.

@@davidhmurphy1619 This comes up a lot but while it did happen, I suspect it has been overstated. The stories of radial (air cooled) engined aircraft coming home with two cylinders shot away are not wrong - that really did happen - but they were extremely rare. An aircraft shot up that badly probably had other potentially fatal damage or simply got part of the way before going down. The cooling system is just one point of vulnerability of inline engines but biggest target area on a single seat fighter was probably the fuel tanks and perhaps other parts of the propulsion system, such as the propeller. So, while an air cooled engine _might_ have a better chance of survival, I wouldn’t want to take a bet on it by trying to fly over the Channel or the Pacific Ocean in one that’s been shot up that badly. My point is that, while these things were possible, any single engine aircraft suffering that much probably wouldn’t make it back at all.

That's a really cool story! Give your Gma a hug for me, ok?

215 hours of flying in less than 9 months www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum-Exhibits/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/196919/flight-training-on-the-eve-of-wwii/#:~:text=At%20the%20beginning%20of%20the,both%20basic%20and%20advanced%20training. I'm a flying student too and it scares me too!

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P47 Thunderbolt The Nazis bombed pearl harbor in less time than it took this clown to explain one important fact.

MATTHEW LITVAK idiot

@@matthewlitvak2695 Wow!!! I didn't know that Pearl Harbor was hit by the Kriegsmarine Luftwaffe.... Uhhh!!!! That's a long way from Wilhelmshaven....

MATTHEW LITVAK f*ck off you useless piece of sht

you will have to prove it and pay for the Gas

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@@theeltea lol yeah man

I do

It is sitting on the ramp at Oceanside Airport in Tucson, Arizona. Keys under the seat waiting for you.

*Imagine clocking 600++ in a power-dive in this monster! You could sweep close to a '109' and the air-blast alone would take a wing off!*

In Africa the wart hog is highly respected for its courage and toughness.

Except this plane was survivable in contested airspace.

You know what, man? The A-10 needs a replacement. The A-10 D. Night vision. Upgraded avionics. Updated processors. Upgraded weapons. Make that time-tested BITCH the OWNER of the night. Just DO it. And, while we are at it, redo the fucking A-1 SKYRAIDER to make it operational in the modern environment.

@@Varnaj42 Ground Loop it is not a Piper Cub that will flip over. you are funny and they were made to ground loop to slow the plane down if the brakes failed.

Every fighter should have a legacy and nickname of itself, not the glory belonging to an ancient legend.

Hi Billy Mays here for P-47 Thunderbolt!

I 100% agree. Those are also my choices, in that order. Shout out to the Corsair and Hellcat too.

Depends on what job P51 had the range for bomber escort. Like a P47 pilot once said it should out dive anything because it sure as hell can't climb. But it was a much better ground attack plane.

Im the same, P51 was pretty, but I want ugly, and brother 3400 rounds is butt ugly to the 650 rounds in 51. Nazis called them Yabo. Patton ordered the retreating nazis what they were, and called the 47's to decimate them for not surrendering. What a site to see and hear 8-50s raining Hellfire on your few minutes left. Let me mention the P 40 as well. Loved it. P47 all the way

@@Minong_Manitou_Mishepeshu Corsairs for me. But I respect all planes in service for each had its job and time. The pilots make the plane and never the other way around.

Hey, buddy. I love ALL you guys. My uncle went through Europe with Patton's 3rd Army all the flipping way. And I served in an M60A1 with the 2nd Armored. But DAMN, the flyboys. They were our HEROES. And THEY were the reason we targeted the ZSU's FIRST. ALWAYS.

Flak Jack Ed The P51 D had a compressed Rolls Royce Merlin engine

But it was a lot cheaper.

VladGoro25 poor plane no one likes him but he is a good girl

VladGoro25 Clearly

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She is one fucking beauty.

A BIG fighter!

Most came off farms where they learned to maintain Tractors and Mechanical things.

And think of the older guys hanging around at that time. They were born in the 1800’s. There were people born during the civil war who were still around st that time.

@@Properformancenutritioncom No doubt. That always amazes me. My great granny passed away an the mid 70's at 99 years old. She was born after the civil war but she did travel west with oxen and a covered wagon. When I was a kid she used to tell us stories about when she was a kid. She was born before the first car was made. When she was a young adult, cars were still using big wooden wagon wheels. She was in her early 30's during WWI & in her 50's during WWII and I knew her. I was either 9 or 10 when she passed away. I can't say I recall lots but do remember her fairly well. While these things, WWI & WWII were a long time ago, compared to a human lifespan, historically, it was like yesterday. "Old West" times really wasn't all that long ago. I am in my early 50's & I knew someone that was alive in the old west. I always find it odd to think about that. These old films & even the civil war, is not all that remote historically.

Yeah, it is not all that remote. I am currently reading "Life in the Confederate Army" on Kindle. Been reading a LOT of Civil War history recently. Oh, no, not remote. It is LIVING history for those who will actually reach out and find it.

Self sealing, different construction tanks than what you are probably accustomed to. They wouldn't necessarily explode on hit and would slow bullets down.

The 109 had an L shaped tank behind and below the pilot.

A Hiney on your hiney.

Heine. just sayin'

@@robertmorris8997 Heine? Can you explain this more? In reference to what?

@@zedxrom7867 I don't know. That was seven months ago.

Heinie (pejorative)Edit Americans and Canadians referred to Germans, especially German soldiers, as Heinies, from a diminutive of the common German male proper name Heinrich. Heinie is also a colloquial term for buttocks, in use since the 1920s. In German, Heini is a common colloquial term with a slightly pejorative meaning similar to "moron" or "idiot".

Have you tried to contact a British Embassy?

Today, that $100K would be $1,520,656.44 with a Cumulative rate of inflation of: 1420.7% Here is today's Mustang ad price: Now for sale at Platinum Fighters, this immaculate P-51 Mustang for $1,799,000! About the Mustang: The P-51 Mustang Fighter, a North American Aviation, is one of the most iconic fighter / fighter bombers that is single-seated and was used during World War 2. In total over 15,000 of these were manufactured.Nov 1, 2015

The Mustang was a Beautiful Wonder. And ALL those aircraft were created with pencil, paper, and slide rules. Goddamned fucking AMAZING.

I’ll sell my house & take two 😉

I would note that actual pricing I've seen is more like $80,000, I'm assuming there's some rounding and difference between production blocks to result in the $100k mentioned here.

Probably only slightly better than non-bullet resistant glass.....but that might have been enough.

Yeah, I noticed he didn’t “bulletproof” glass.

If the glass was hit at an oblique angle, it worked pretty well.

lol its still a beast of a plane

lol same here, I take to japanese planes naturally, but US planes are very challenging

iamrichrocker ...yes, except for the Germans. We wanted German tech and so did the Russians.

You guys were damn lucky that the Japanese didn't roll out the Ki-84 hayate (or Frank) earlier and the Germans had their factories bombed too.

@@randompheidoleminor3011 We were just at releasing our f8f and p-80 when the war ended as well

@@samuelt3338 the Hayate entered service one year before the war ended, if I'm not mistaken. The problem was the shortage of experienced pilots. But anyways without the help of your ancestors I'd probably be stuck in a labor camp, so thanks to them.

@@randompheidoleminor3011 It's all good. Out of curiosity, would you have been affected by the Germans or the Japanese?

I was in the Air Force for four years and I can assure you you never want to underestimate the stupidity of the brass.

+surearrow 4 years later I'm LOLing.. Sincerely.

@Buy Bitcoins That was the P-40C Warhawk.