From a USA fighter crash site in Salerno area
 

This crash site we can find with help of a old man that was a child when aircraft go down.
It is crashed about 15 km sout east of Salerno, september 1943.
The old man said us that he seen a USA and a German aircraft fought in the sky. Then the USA aircraft go very near to the ground and take a steel cable put in the valley and crashed. He remember that there was at least a dead body from the aircraft. Actually we have not other informations.
Here are the fragments after a first reconnaissance. Some idea about aircraft type??
This appear to be a cover. Colour grey or blue\grey. Measure 17x11 cm. Number 56 painted
http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/8498/dvc00201.th.jpg
Rear. Yellow.
http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/8049/dvc00202.th.jpg
Code 89C222 4 5
http://img845.imageshack.us/img845/2881/dvc00203.th.jpg
Code S9085
http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/5592/dvc00204.th.jpg
Fragment of fuselage. Colour grey\blu covered with colour yellow.
http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/5479/dvc00205.th.jpg
Fragment of alluminium.
http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/1...c00206c.th.jpg
Code 931 631 66....
http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/9677/dvc00207.th.jpg
Code circled R 199
http://img845.imageshack.us/img845/8985/dvc00208.th.jpg
Code circled M
http://img855.imageshack.us/img855/6517/dvc00209.th.jpg
Small fragments
http://img807.imageshack.us/img807/7...c00210r.th.jpg
Bullets of 12,7 mm
http://img688.imageshack.us/img688/1184/dvc00211.th.jpg
All marked S L 43
http://img835.imageshack.us/img835/2634/dvc00212.th.jpg
We are not sure these object we find in crash site are from aircraft. Some idea about black plastic object?
http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/6986/dvc00213.th.jpg

Re: From a USA fighter crash site in Salerno area
 

Definitively a P-47 ( number 89 )

Zorglub

Re: From a USA fighter crash site in Salerno area
 

Do you have informations about P-47 in Salerno area???