Warbird Information Exchange

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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."

Looks suspiciously like an F4F to me...

Is that a still frame from a film?

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Dave

Jupp, is a F4F.

And I thought that the F4F thing was just me....

Mark H

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Fly safe or you get to meet me .......

Yes, I saw a pretty detailed study of this somewhere that concluded that it was an F4F.

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Kevin McCartney

That's a mildcat, any further information?

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Don't make me go get my flying monkeys-

Friendly fire or a Japanese pic?
I think I read this was friendly fire, but I could have CRS

I am thinking of the pilot presumably still on board.
The photo reminds me of "the Last Enemy" by Richard Hillary but I suspect the pilot never made it that far.

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Chris Mellor

Thought it was a Judy. darn!

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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."

That's what I had originally thought as well.

That photo has been published in countless books, and most of the time it's captioned as a Judy, so it's understandable. Of course, there's this equally well known Kamikaze photo that is definitely a Judy, which may be where the confusion comes from.

SN

Interesting that he has the flaps down--or are they dive brakes? I suppose slower meant greater accuracy, as well as more vulnerability to AA. Me, I'd sure want to get it over with as fast as possible...

Here's a photo from my friend Ernie's album. It was taken during the VE Day attack on HMS Victorious.

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