We at Bottisham Airfield Museum wish the team every success. We have already been in touch and provided the team with a full set of wartime photos that should allow them to finish the aircraft correctly should they decide that to do so.

Our P-51 will be also be finished as Lou IV/Athlene in memory of Colonel Thomas Christian who was killed whilst flying from Bottisham on August 12 1944. Unfortunately Christian was buried in an unmarked grave in the WW1 cemetery in Arras.

We hope to to show what an 8th AF P-51 would have look like in the Summer of 1944.

All our research and interviews with pilots and ground crews have shown no indications whatsoever of blue paint on any 361st FG machine.

For more information on our P-51 please visit http://www.bottishamairfieldmuseum.org.uk/p51.htm

Thanks

Jason

http://www.361fg.com
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