Aircraft Types-three letter codes
 

Going through USAAF accident reports in/over England, I am stumped by a few code words (right term?). I know FEW indicated a P-47 was being flown, but what RAF types were known as SOX and PIN. For example, a P-47 pilot collided with what was called an RAF SOX type aircraft but no indication of the actual type, single or multi-engine, etc.

Kent

Re: Aircraft Types-three letter codes
 

Kent

Is it possible to give us a link anywhere to any of this?
Never heard of any code words given to any RAF aircraft.

I am not at home right now so can't check my downloads, but the reason I ask is that for example SOX sounds
very much like the codeword USAAF gave to the 8th AF (at least I think SOX was that, but at my age my
memory is not what it once was)

Cheers
Stig

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Accident Report 46343 on March 23, 1944 has Lt. Wilson (511 Ftr Sqn, 405 Ftr Grp) saying he took off in a FEW, AAF serial 42-76361, so I know that FEW meant a P-47. On Accident Report 46342, March 21, 1944, Lt. Willingham (same unit), flying a slow-time flight, collided with an RAF SOX when he bounced four of them while earlier he had been bounced twice by an RAF PIN. The SOX plane's pilot did not bail out while Willingham managed to make a landing without injury.

Kent

Re: Aircraft Types-three letter codes
 

Thanks Kent

Really strange to use the same code word for totally different things.

Cheers
Stig

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Coming at it from the other direction

On the 21st March 1944 Hurricane LD972 of 439 Sqn was hit by P-47 2 m E of Hurn. F/L Pollock RCAF was killed

Assuming the US pilot's a/c recognition was Ok then a SOX is a Hurricane

Martin

Re: Aircraft Types-three letter codes
 

Stig and Giles,

Thank you for the help on this. I'll continue to search and pass along anything I may find.

Kent