78th FG at Duxford

[gunnyperdue]

Are there any more pictures of Twilight Tear out there?

Thanks,
gunny

[MKD1966]

Col Caviness's P-51D

The kill marks on the canopy frame of this one is a post war publicity addition. The P-51 came with Caviness from the 361st when Caviness & Landers were transferred commands around June of 45.
Caviness, although with the 361st as either a squadron CO, group XO and finally group CO only had 1 dmg (air) and 3 dest (grnd) credits.

One day I hope someone puts this scheme back on a Mustang... I miss seeing Jimmy Hunt's P-51 in these colors...
Mike

[Speedy]

One day I hope someone puts this scheme back on a Mustang... I miss seeing Jimmy Hunt's P-51 in these colors...
Mike

You beat me to that comment...that was an amazingly colorful paint scheme. But the only photos of the real plane I've seen are in black and white, so I never knew if Jimmy's 'rendition' of it was accurate or not.

Jimmy's is the plane at San Diego Air & Space Museum now, isn't it?

[John Kerr]

Here is a photo of N5551D#1, 44-73683, when owned by Jimmy Hunt.

[Django]

Note for other USAAF re-enactors (i.e. Mudge, etc)... take a good look at this pic.




Note that Brown and Orr are wearing "pinks", while Russell and Smith are wearing OD/"chocolate" trousers... and all of the pilots are wearing "chocolate" officer shirts with tan ties. The OD shirt and trouser combo is pretty unusual to see, albeit perfectly legitimate for service wear.

Great shots as always, Jack!

Lynn

Are you sure the 2 on the right are wearing the chocolate shirts? They look lighter to me.

So now we know what paint the Razorback at Duxford will be wearing.

[the330thbg]

I have it on good authority that this was staged as part of a movie shoot.



Lynn

LMFAO

Only in Texas.., only in Texas, my friend! LOL

[the330thbg]

375th/361st squadron CO George Merritt bent the blades on his B model back like that on a strafing run and flew it back to base at Bottisham. His former crew chief related to me that they noticed Merritt coming in last and a lot slower than the rest of the squadron and with the aircraft making a rather strange sound.
Merritt was well known for getting down low on his runs, he said he didn't notice a slight rise in the ground. He was killed a short time later on another strafing run.

Yah, those 'slight rises in the ground' will get you everytime

Just look at Shangri La.