[Fernando Estanislau]

Dear Gentlemen,

I am trying to track the destiny of few aircraft that, once delivered to the 1st Brazilian Fighter Squadron attached to the 350st Fighter Group in Italy, were transferred to other units.

All the first batch of Brazilian Aircraft (from 42-6753 to 42-6789) were factory camouflaged in Olive Drab, and the ones transferred became (many times) the only camouflaged bubbletops among the other silver ones.

I have found some, others remaining a total mistery:

42-26754 P-47D-25-RE - to 65th FS / 57th FG "64" "Hi Mr. Jackson"/ "Adele K"
42-26765 P-47D-25-RE - to 64th FS / 57th FG "33" "The Lady Jake"
42-26767 P-47D-25-RE -
42-26769 P-47D-25-RE - to 64th FS / 57th FG
42-26770 P-47D-25-RE - to 346th FS / 350th FG "6C2"
42-26771 P-47D-25-RE -
42-26777 P-47D-27-RE -
42-26781 P-47D-27-RE - to 86th FG "66"
42-26785 P-47D-27-RE - to 346th FS / 350th FG "6D5" "Oh Johnnie"
42-26787 P-47D-27-RE - to 525th FS / 86th FG "39"
42-26789 P-47D-27-RE - to 65th FS / 57th FG "(?)" "Dogie II"


The ones I am especially looking for:


42-26767, found nothing of it
42-26769, only information states that it had aerial crash on 18/02/45 at Grosseto (Italy), pilot was James T. Knight - KIA - Collision against P-47 42-26424
42-26771, only information I could find is that it had total lost on April 13, 1945.
42-26777, found nothing of it

I wonder if anybody has information of the unit these aircraft belonged, their crew and fate.
A photography of any of them would be nice too, since the goal of the research is to identify all of them as being "green" aircraft.

Any information would be a great help and I thank you all in advance.

Fernando Estanislau, from Brazil