Warbird Information Exchange

I found two sources that appear to have conflicting information about the number of rounds the guns carried. Here are the relevant sections from each source:


So, the question is: How many rounds did the guns carry on the P-51D and when did it change?

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I found another source which claims 400 rounds for each inboard gun, so it looks like that is the correct answer:

I initially took the 500 rounds in the F-51 Mustang Handbook to refer to early model (i.e. P-51A-C) Mustangs because it was being contrasted with "late [model] airplanes". (Or alternatively, earlier P-51Ds as in D-5s vs D-20s.) However, after rereading the except, I realized the book never actually uses the term "early" and I was only assuming that it did. I think what it is really doing is contrasting postwar F-51s with the World War II era P-51Ds. The F-51s must have been modified after the war to include an extra 100 rounds per inboard gun. This makes a lot more sense, since I couldn't understand why the number of rounds carried was being reduced in later models of Mustang.

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From the Maintenance and Erection Manual for the P-51D/K

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