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Reply To: FlyPast May Issue -75th Anniversary Blitzkrieg Special!

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43-2195
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The Photograph of a P-38 Instrument Panel shown on page 75 of this issue, describes the panel, ” P-38J instrument panel” . I was not born when this photograph was taken, however I believe that the description given is incorrect. My research suggests this Instrument Panel was installed in P-38G-15-LO 43-2335, Lockheed Constructors Number 3444 and was taken at Burbank, California on December 23rd, 1942. I have personally handled the Instrument Panels from P-38G-15-LO 43-2195 and 43-2201, their panels were exactly the same layout as that depicted on page 75. Given the huge variation in panel layouts between model changes, I have no doubt what so ever that the panel depicted on page 75 is NOT a P-38J instrument panel.