Thank you to Lyric1 for finding me the info for this skin.
The four squadrons of the 80th Fighter Group began operations in Burma in September 1943, the 88th, 89th and 90th with P-40s and the 459th with P-38s. Their role was to support the Allied ground offensive against the Japanese and to protect the cargo planes airlifting supplies to China over "The Hump". Their P-40s had a distinctive large skull emblem painted onto their cowls. When the P-40 squadrons received replacement P-47s in early 1945 the group CO, Colonel Albert L. Evans Jr. had this skull painted onto his personal aircraft "Butterbean III". Shortly after the new aircraft arrived though he was transferred home and the aircraft lost its name and skull art.
