Oiii!
I have not yet found the time and patience for skinning, but his Spit V carried the lettes Ju-J, and later it was YT-B, - I think. Both Euro-camo and later the desert camo, but that aircraft had the Vokes filter.
BTW, he is on some poster with the name of "company of aces" or something of the sort. Picture, signature, and aircraft picture, and on that one is his desert camo Spit V. Yeager is on that poster as well, and because of that (and other things) those two met and were able to compare their Mustang tactics.....
He did some hopping between planes I think, and his P51 went to scrap after he got shot up in the summer of 1944. Guess he got a new one.
P51C with a bubbly hood.
Did you read his autobiography?
Now, back to the Saddle tank, Tony flew his Spit V from Gibraltar to Algiers. The aircraft was assembled in Gibraltar and off he went. The squadron had an escort duty en route, so the cruise was not the one the pilots would have chosen, ending up with a couple of ditches due to fuel shortage. I can dig up the text on this if you like. One heck of a ride he had, barely making it to base.
I also have some data from Johnnie Johnsson about taking of for Malta with fully loaded Spit V's from an aircraft carrier at maximum distance. Slipper thanks there as well.
Promise: I'll type up if requested
