Thank you to Lyric1 for finding me the info for this skin.
This is "Elsie", the P-38L flown by Lt Col Clay Tice, CO of the 49th Fighter Group while based in the Philippines and later Okinawa during 1945. As CO of the group Tice's aircraft featured red, yellow and blue markings to represent the individual colours used by his three squadrons. Also his personal skull and tomahawk emblem was painted on each cowl and the name "Elsie" on the nose.
Clay Tice started the war flying P-40s with the 49th FG in the South West Pacific theatre, then was posted to command the P-47D-equipped 507th FS in Europe, before finishing the war back with the 49th FG, but this time as its CO. Probably his most famous exploit though on the 25th August 1945 was to be the first American pilot to land in Japan, a week before General MacArthur landed there to sign the document that ended the war. Tice was leading a flight of P-38s on a sweep over Japan that was to monitor the ceasefire then in effect when one of his pilots Flight Officer Hall reported he was short on fuel. Determining that Hall would not make it back to Okinawa Tice decided that he, Hall and an air sea rescue B-17 should land at a Japanese Army air base to ask for assistance. The Japanese officers at the base helpfully supplied a pump to allow for some of the B-17's fuel to be transferred to Hall's aircraft and the three planes then took off and returned to Okinawa.
