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Re: 14th FG P-38 lost on 15 june 1943
Carlos,
I may be wrong but also the radiator flap -that seems to be almost completely open in the picture - had been overpainted.
By my opinion there were three letters/digits overpainted.
The pilot, according to all the documents I've found, was taken prisonner.
If he wasn't a POW, perhaps there should have been a MACR...
I've checked the POW database searching for 2/Lt Jerry Stidham, POW on 15 june, rescued on 29 july: he is not included in the database. Perhaps that's due to the fact he remained POW for a short time.
But the Capoterra P-38 pilot should have leaved Sardinia after a short time, and probably he wasn't there anymore when the island was occupied in september 1943.
In the Italian Air Force archive I've found a 14 august 1943 document containing a list of six allied airmen (all NCO) flown to the italian mainland: amongst them, a pilot shot down on 2 august 1943. So the stay in Sardinia of the captured airmen was short.
I'll go in march to the It.AF Historical Office and I'll try to find other details about this little mistery.
Regards
Gianandrea
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