Fiery Ginger

[jankees]

fiery (00002) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

fiery (00001) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

fiery (00004) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

fiery (00005) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

fiery (00008) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

[Charl]

Nice...that propellor hub could be mounted and displayed in an art museum.
Didn't it have stripes on the tail?

[Splitpin]

The Jug .

[jankees]

Nice...that propellor hub could be mounted and displayed in an art museum.
Didn't it have stripes on the tail?

stripes on the tail? There were P-47's with stripes on the tail, but not this one.

In the ETO and CBI, P-47's had stripes on the tail to make them distinguishable from FW-190's, and the stripes all over during D-Day:

madam (0007) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

and in Italy you had one unit that put candy stripes on the tails of their P-47's:

86th FG (00002) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

and late in the war, the 348th FG (Fiery Ginger was the original CO's aircraft in 1943) started painting stripes on their aircraft:
Josie04 by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

[Charl]

I would never take you on regarding an historic paint but turns out there were several Fiery Ginger Jugs.
I was thinking of the one piloted by Neel Kearby in the Pacific which had 3 stripes where your paint has blue on the fin.
He went MIA in Fiery Ginger IV, chasing that last kill to beat Eddie Rickenbacker's 26 tally.

Gosh you learn a lot in this forum, don't you...

[jankees]

Kearby flew 3 P-47's while in New Guinea. The one depicted here was his first, 42-8145. This aircraft was lost on22 October 1943, while being flown by Lt Ernest Ness. He was captured and executed unfortunately.
The second one, also called Fiery Ginger, was 42-75908, which he flew for only a short period, also with the blue tail tip of the 342nd Squadron.
The third, confusingly called Fiery Ginger IV, (maybe he flew a first Fiery Ginger while training in the US), was 42-22668, and that had the three stripes in the three squadron colors of the 348th FG that you mean. This was his final aircraft, in which he was shot down on 5 March 1944.