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F4U-1A VMF-214 on Torokina, Bouganville Dec. 1943

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Great shot, looks like a model diorama

How did they keep the runway matting from rolling before the landing gear? Seems like the weight of the aircraft would sort of bunch it up (like if you run your hand along a blanket it scrunches it up before your hand)

Staked it down? In all that mud? hrmmmm

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"I knew the jig was up when I saw the P-51D-20-NA Mustang blue-nosed bastards from Bodney, and by the way the blue was more of a royal blue than an indigo and the inner landing gear interiors were NOT green, over Berlin."

ground stakes

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tom d. friedman - hey!!! those fokkers were messerschmitts!! * without ammunition, the usaf would be just another flying club!!! * better to have piece of mind than piece of tail!!

It looks a little odd, like the background and foreground came from different photos or that color was added to part of the photo.

interesting detail on the side insignia: there seems to be an overpainted half-ring in evidence on the upper part of the star circle, but there is no other such overpainting visible around the rest of it, i.e. if the red-surround had been painted out. Is it possible that the older-type star without the bars was painted over with the newer insignia?

great photo, as usual.

cheers

greg v.

Great pic

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Chris Henry
EAA Aviation Museum Director

Wouldn't that "halo" just be the overpainting of the red outlined version on the national insignia?

I think it's still red. The color of the whole photo is just a little off.
Possibly to the film or processing chemicals used, aging or effect of the tropical conditions on on the materials used.

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