[USMCVet]

I once found eight perfectly serviceable Browning .50 caliber machineguns still loaded with 1942 lot ammunition. I was an active duty second Lieutenant back then, so I had to report the find and turn the weapons in.

Hint: they were in the wings of a wrecked plane that had crash-landed under some trees on Kahoolawe Island and that plane was still sitting there, undiscovered until I found it in 1975.

For the Freeper airplane buffs: what kind of plane was it? Bonus points if you can tell me what year it crashed - it had the star and white bar national insignia on it.

[topher]

Had to be B-17, but other US Army Air Force bombers were used for skip bombing.

Of course, it may be the Liberator or Maurader [spelling?] -- B-24 & B-26 -- but I don't remember them having as many .50 Cal guns.

[mo]

Republic P-47 ?D "JUG" 1944...

[F-117A]

Bump!

[wingnut1971]

My guess is it was a Navy craft...Wildcat?

[OKSooner]

A Corsair. Would have crashed in 1945.

[F-117A]

B-25 or P-47.

[Nakota]

This is a bit of a mystery as I always thought that was a Navy target island. (I dived off that island 30+ years ago.) But here goes, the P-47 Thunderbolt had 8 BMGs, 4 in each wing, however it was an AAC fighter. The year would be 1943, late if the white bars had blue borders and earlier if the borders were red.

[RaceBannon]

Trees? On Kahoolawhe? I spent a week on Smuglers cove and even did some walking through the inert range, then did an overnighter with RECON, I dont remember ANY trees!

4 per wing in a pre-WWII a/c?

I thought the F4F had only 3

P-40 had only 3 per wing, but didn't they also have 2 on the cowling?

[Rakkasan1]

P-51
1944

[demlosers]

P-40 Warhawk?

[JackelopeBreeder]

P-47. Late '44 or '45.