[Alex Smart]

Hello Jerry,
If I understand correctly the date has been reassessed to the 26-01-1943.
So this from my earlier post -

Seems that the 78 FG had a Ferry Flight of 9 aircraft on the 26th.
Not a very successful flight as here are details of five of them.
So if Foreman was a sixth then can we find the remaining three that probably made it to Gibraltar ?

"26th Jan 43
P38F 43-2135 Jack R. Brown 78FG 82FS.
Crash
P38F 43-2148 Richard L.Rope killed in crash at Albufeira, Portugal on ferry flight.
Missing
P38F 41-7576 Donald S. Beals 78FG, 83 FS.
one of a flight of 9 a/c on a ferry flight to Gibraltar.
Salvaged
P38G 42-12905 Henry L. Perry jr 78FG, 83 FS.
mid air collision over Yorkshire with
P38G 42-12928 Stephen L. White 78FG, 82 FS
Both pilots killed.".

42-12886 still looks to be the favourite?

From "Eagles of Duxford", a note about January '43.
'The entire camp took on a happier air as the pilots returned from Burtonwood and Scotland with the Groups new P-38G's.
And
It was necessary to equip some of the P-38s with dust filters for African desert operations. The afternoon of the Chelveston return, several flights left for the Lockheed Lightning Modification Depot at Langford Lodge, Ireland to receive the filters.

The first 78th P-47s arrived on January 29th when four of the aircraft were ferried in from the Air Depot. Two ferry pilots were killed the next day.

Alex