The caption on this dated photo from the IWM says it was shipped to Canada for the RCAF. Other aircraft in this block of serials were delivered to Canada two years before the photo but EB490 is not listed at CASPIR as one of them. Further evidence that it remained in the UK is an air-to-air photo that was taken by Flight magazine. Oxford Vs for Canada were usually built without their P&W Wasp Junior engines, which were fitted on arrival. EB490 may have remained with Airspeed at Portsmouth, which is where this photo was taken. Photo from: Imperial War Museums

Early production P-47D from Republic's Farmingdale, NY, plant. Named "Mary" and serving with the USAAF's 369 Fighter Squadron, 359 Fighter Group, at RAF East Wretham, Norfolk. Obtained 60 years ago.