Note to Sicobra: Florida and California are several thousand miles apart, and on separate sides of the U.S.

Do you mean the original wartime Moose? If so, no, it was silver

How are all those Spitfire restorations at Perranporth coming along?

If you look again at photos from the filming, you will see that there is a clear difference between the colour of Moose and the other (OD-painted) Mustangs. The small white lettering on the bottoms of the two main gear doors was the names of the crew chiefs at the time, one of whom was myself.

And contrary to what has been posted on other fora, it was never USAAF Olive Drab, but RAF Dark Green, as per the original 357 FG aircraft, which were painted in-theatre over the factory silver using RAF paint stocks.

The fuel tank was removed after it was civilianised post-retirement from the RCAF in the late-50s and a second seat was fitted.

An oft-repeated myth. Statistically as many P-47s and P-38s were lost to ground fire as P-51s.