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Moisture Yellow Lead, 26 June 1943
P-47C serial 41-6334 flown by LT Walker M. "Bud" Mahurin, 63rd Fighter Squadron, 56th FG. Bomber escort mission to Villacoublay, France; Mahurin was forced to abort for mechanical problems.
During the course of his combat tour, Mahurin was officially credited with 19.75 confirmed aerial victories.
Mahurin would lose this aircraft in a midair collision a mile northwest of Metfield on 11 August 1943; he survived without injury. On 27 March 1944, flying his P-47D "Spirit of Atlantic City, NJ" (serial 42-8487, coded UN-M), Mahurin successfully engaged a Do-217, from which the four enemy crewmen parachuted safely. However, Mahurin paid for it with a damaged engine; nursing the stricken 'Jug' homeward as far as he could, he was seen to bail out and land in good shape. His luck held out as he managed to evade capture; he returned to fly combat in the Pacific (MACR 3440).
Moisture Yellow Lead, 26 June 1943
P-47C serial 41-6334 flown by LT Walker M. "Bud" Mahurin, 63rd Fighter Squadron, 56th FG. Bomber escort mission to Villacoublay, France; Mahurin was forced to abort for mechanical problems.
During the course of his combat tour, Mahurin was officially credited with 19.75 confirmed aerial victories.
Mahurin would lose this aircraft in a midair collision a mile northwest of Metfield on 11 August 1943; he survived without injury. On 27 March 1944, flying his P-47D "Spirit of Atlantic City, NJ" (serial 42-8487, coded UN-M), Mahurin successfully engaged a Do-217, from which the four enemy crewmen parachuted safely. However, Mahurin paid for it with a damaged engine; nursing the stricken 'Jug' homeward as far as he could, he was seen to bail out and land in good shape. His luck held out as he managed to evade capture; he returned to fly combat in the Pacific (MACR 3440).