[JRandomFreeper]

God bless the men that fly and fight.

Welcome home, airman.

/johnny

[cherry]

tonite this news strikes me as very sad, what with our diminishing country...

young good men dying for this country and what have we done?...allowed?....

God help us all....

[MUDDOG]

Fenstermacher was shot down by friendly fire.

That happened all too often.

When he flew over D-Day to observe the battle, Jimmy Doolittle used a P-38 Lightning (the plane with the twin booms) precisely to minimize the danger of friendly fire.

[hinckley buzzard]

Fenstermacher was piloting a P-47D Thunderbolt – which was perhaps the apogee of the development of propeller-driven fighter planes - that was on an armed-reconnaissance mission against targets in Germany.

No disrespect to LT Fenstermacher, who died a hero. The P-47 was a short range fighter, relegated to recon missions by December 1944. The P-51 Mustang had superseded the Thunderbolt in every respect by then.

[jmacusa]

The Battle of the Bulge was the largest, costliest and continuous single battle the US Army ever fought. From the time the battle began on December 16, 1944 to when it was declared ‘’contained’’ on January 27, 1945 there was never a day, an hour or a minute that any American unit was not in contact with the enemy. Some 80,000 Americans were either killed, captured or wounded, one of those wounded was my late Uncle Fred who served with the 84th. Infantry Division.

[Joe 6-pack]

Welcome home LT.

[MUDDOG]

P-47D Thunderbolt – which was perhaps the apogee of the development of propeller-driven fighter planes

It was a great plane, but emphasis on "perhaps" in "perhaps the apogee."

[MS.BEHAVIN]

Thank you for posting this, Robo!
Canteen PING!

[Jet Jaguar]

Rest well young Airman.

[higgmeister]

Welcome home Sir!

[Kathy in Alaska]

TAPS

Welcome home and RIP

1st Lt Robert G Fenstermacher WWII, Army Air Force

Amazing Grace

[Rockpile]

He was with the 506 th Fighter Squadron of the 404 th Fighter Group.

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