ML 52 requested a 332nd FG Jug skin and I've made this one based on a photo that Seadog36 posted.
The 332nd FG was unique in the USAAF in that its pilots were all black. The US military was racially segregated at this time and the 332nd were subject to racial discrimination from both inside and outside the service. They were deployed to Africa and later Italy and flew P-39 and P-40s on mostly ground support missions. In June 1944 they received hand-me-down P-47Ds and began a new role escorting USAAF bombers. In July the old P-47s were traded in for new P-51s.
This aircraft was originally part of the 64th FS, 57th FG and still carried that squadron's logo on the nose. The only change made by the 332nd FG was to paint the tail red, the group's new ID marking.
