Special photo set

[John Beaman]

Originally Posted by drgondog

John - that would seem to be one early record in the life of the A-7 as a couple of GI's and multiple .50 cal holes would place the damage as something other than technical failure and into March/April 1945?

Well, note that the listing is 60% in Feb '44. Perhaps it was never repaired? In any event many of the "holes" look like square or triangular holes which I do not think .50 cal or other cal could make. Looks like a lot of post-discovery G.I. damage to me.

[Dennis Peschier]

I would like to add that the marking are not standard for aircraft in this series. They are from a later period. So it seems that it was repaired, even though it was 60% damaged. The white outline swastika (H4) appears a lot on repaired aircraft, perhaps replacement tail sections were delivered as such?

Dennis