Hi All,
I have a large and very nice picture of an RAF marked “high back” Mustang in my posession. It the Mustang sits in front of a bombed out church and is being worked on by 3 techies, whilst a commissioned officer looks on.
I don’t have my camera handy to take an image, but would like to identify the Sqn to which the aircraft belongs.
It is coded A-QV and the only decernable digits of the a/c serial are xxx90.
Any help in this matter would be greatly appreciated!
Cheers,
C6
By: happ45 - 26th April 2012 at 15:43
WW2 Aviaton Memorial @ Ellon, France
Hi there,
Stumbled across this thread by chance. I am from Ellon in Aberdeenshire Scotland and whilst on holiday in France I came across Ellon by chance.
I had been visiting the British War Graves Cemetery at nearby Jerusalem as part of my own battlefield tour of the area around what was Operation Epsom.
When there I visited the churchyard and was approached by a local – we spoke in Fren-glish and he offered to take me to a memorial site just outside Ellon that he and a friend were working on. It was opened the next Sunday – this was in July, 2009.
Please link to the pictures – thought you may find them of interest. On one of the memorial plaques W/O RR Carson is listed.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/66813735@N00/
Best Regards,
Ross McGee
By: antoni - 14th July 2007 at 15:29
The photograph can found on page 51 of The FlyPast Book of the P-51 Mustang. Caption says it is FZ190 being prepared for the next sortie at B.12 Ellon airfield in France during August 1944.
By: ian_st - 14th July 2007 at 14:20
According to my reference QV is the code for 19 Sqn who were equipped with Mustangs from Jan 44
There is a pic of 19 Sqn Mustangs including QV-A ( although obviously may not be the same aircraft) here:
http://www.modelersunderground.com/forums/archive/index.php/thread-8635.html
By: CIRCUS 6 - 14th July 2007 at 13:49
Oh and said Mustang has invasion markings…. so post 6/6/44
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