OK Ryan, I asked all the aviation people I knew and came up with this....From General Stanley F.H. Newman....
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We had different color schemes before and after our Korean War call-up. (We called that our KOJT.)
Before the war and prior to the USAF becoming a separate service, the birds had solid spinners and a diagonal colored stripe ( forward slash--e.g.. top forward of the bottom) on the fuselage sides, aft of the canopy. (These were colored red, white, blue and green, according to the flight they were assigned.) instead of the USAF star and bar we had an Indianhead (full headdress) on the side and OK ---NG in black fore and aft of the Indianhead.
After the split from the Army, the USAF star and bar replaced the Indianhead and the NG changed to ANG.
Post Korea, Hastie and I decided to mark them like the P-51s which we flew in Korea (45th Tac Recon Sqdn):
Dark Blue background with white polka dots on the spinners, a strip circling the spinner on the nose from the spinner to just in front of the exhaust stacks with the same polka dot color scheme and on the wing tips and on the tips of the horizontal and vertical tail.
This is all from memory, but I believe it's pretty accurate.
Just out of curiosity, what does your friend plan to do with this info?
I'm also trying to find more pics...Hope this helps, Steve.
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