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At a flea market, I got a 1:32 papercraft model sheet of a P-51B nicknamed “Chicago Gun Noll” [sic], tail-coded “36556”, and coded “G4-B” on left side of its fuselage.
When completed, the model claims to be 307 mm long, and assembling its parts seem more complex than a plastic model.

Anyway. I obviously Googled the nickname and tail code.

http://www.72scale.com/aircraft/NA/P-51.htm
http://flevoaviationhobby.net/images/kitreviews/1-48/acm3418/acm3418.html
say it belonged to the 357th FG “The Yoxford Boys” in the ETO; nicknamed “Chicago Gun Noll” [sic]; and piloted as G4-B by Captain Robert D. Brown.

http://www.flashie.nl/T/DC/DC048462.HTM
http://www.flashie.nl/T/TD/TD048462.HTM
http://modellwelt.at/index.php?list=KAT372
say it belonged to the 362nd FS, USAAF; nicknamed “Chicago Gun Noll” [sic]; and piloted as G4-B by Captain R.D. Brown.
And possibly belonged to the 319th FS, USAAF, nicknamed “Dorothy II”; and piloted as No 90 by Captain R.M. Barkey.

Does anyone here know any site that has more historic info about this P-51B?
Such as its squadron history, and whether it was shot down or survived until it was scrapped at the end of the wars?

BTW, if you want more information about those kinds of models there’s a community of folks at http://www.papermodelers.com

Ryan