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Moisture Blue Two, 26 June 1943
P-47C serial 41-6573 assigned to LT Wilfred A. Van Able, "borrowed" and flown by LT John H. Truluck, Jr (inset), 63rd Fighter Squadron, 56th FG. Bomber escort mission to Villacoublay.
During the course of his combat tour, Truluck was officially credited with seven confirmed aerial victories.
Van Able was shot down in this aircraft on 2 September 1943, and spent the remainder of hostilities as a POW (MACR 468).
Moisture Blue Two, 26 June 1943
P-47C serial 41-6573 assigned to LT Wilfred A. Van Able, "borrowed" and flown by LT John H. Truluck, Jr (inset), 63rd Fighter Squadron, 56th FG. Bomber escort mission to Villacoublay.
During the course of his combat tour, Truluck was officially credited with seven confirmed aerial victories.
Van Able was shot down in this aircraft on 2 September 1943, and spent the remainder of hostilities as a POW (MACR 468).