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"Can anyone spare a Jug of oil?
1st Lt. Edwin King’s and his blackened P-47 after its main oil line was cut by enemy flak.
While strafing enemy gun positions near Brescia, Italy, King took return fire that severed his oil line.
The R-2800 engine kept on chugging despite losing every drop of oil, which streamed over the airplane and coated the fuselage and canopy.
Since he could no longer see forward, King flew in formation with his wingman all the way back to base. The engine finally seized up while he was on final approach.
The mission was this Thunderbolt’s 110th—and last—combat sortie."