PS. CrazyMainer

There are 8 Copies of Pacific Wrecks listed at Bookfinder.com so HURRY!

Also

The book you want is Fleet Air Arm Aircraft 1939 to 1945

They are quite hard to come by but i do see them come up occasionaly at the shows in the UK

http://www.sturtivant.freeserve.co.uk/faaa.htm

There is going to be new edition sometime. Don’t know where or when

You maybe interested in Ray Sturtivant’s latest tome

Fleet Air Arm Fixed-Wing Aircraft Since 1946 as well!

http://www.sturtivant.freeserve.co.uk/fixed.htm

Ray has also been involved in documenting all RN aircraft from 1911 to 1939 in 2 other books:

Royal Navy Aircraft Serials and Units 1911-1919
Fleet Air Arm Aircraft, Units and Ships 1920 to 1939

As the introduction to his latest says ‘No other air arm has had the history of its aircraft so thoroughly documented’

The imporatnt thing is to ask….

How long have you lived in Headcorn??

The only people who can honestly complain is those who were there (if any) before the airfield was built

To all the others.. Didn’t you notice that you were next to an airfield when you bought your home? What do you expect??

I have the same beef with Heathrow expansion complainers.. I live in Berkshire (not far from Windsor).. I KNOW Heathrow was there I still made the choice to live there!..

NF910 Lancaster B1 ex 467 Sqn and De Havilland. With Rotol, Undershoot approach, hit fence and crashlanded 9.6.1950 at Morton Valence. SOC 12.8.1950

From Broken Wings. Post-War RAF Accidents by JJ Halley, Pub Air Britain 1999

No images ??

How about

http://www.adressa.no/bildegallerier/article.jhtml?articleID=506976&imageIndex=0

http://www.adressa.no/bildegallerier/article.jhtml?articleID=506976&imageIndex=1

http://www.adressa.no/bildegallerier/article.jhtml?articleID=506976&imageIndex=2

http://www.adressa.no/bildegallerier/article.jhtml?articleID=506976&imageIndex=3

http://www.adressa.no/bildegallerier/article.jhtml?articleID=506976&imageIndex=4

http://www.adressa.no/bildegallerier/article.jhtml?articleID=506976&imageIndex=5

http://www.adressa.no/bildegallerier/article.jhtml?articleID=506976&imageIndex=6

Can any one ID her from the code? ?I – ON ????

re: 1. On page 110 of ‘The Mighty Eighth Warpaint & Heraldry’ there is a comprehensive descirption of the 55th’s P-51 paint schemes for all the squadrons and has an accompanying photo showing red stripes on all the squadron airplanes.
2. On page 210 of ‘The Mighty Eighth – The Colour Record’ there is another photo of 338th P-51s with red stripe”

If you look here:
http://www.lf.czu.cz/museum119/55/55fg_cs5m.pdf

you will see that there is a red stripe around the top of the cowling and fuselage on both 343, 388 machines (and maybe 38th if the row at the back is their aircraft) but not on the side of the cowling towards the wing..

There appears to be a red stripe on the side of the machine which is just visible in the second colour picture of the rear 38th Squadron machine

BTW there is a colour plate in the Mighty Eighth War Diary (admittedly not of a 388th machine) but of a 55th FG machine with the stripe in yellow!

Also see:

http://www.littlefriends.co.uk/55thfg.jsp?offset=400

44-13663 was “Pink” when with 38 Sqn coded CG-

and

http://www.littlefriends.co.uk/55thfg.jsp

She then moved to 338th Sqn – The site has her as ‘N’ but she may have been re-coded would she have kept her nickname??

BTW the 38th Sqn had aircraft coded “O”

Thank Maytag
re “cannot tell for sure as the only picture I have showing the whole plane is of bad quality), but not CL*N.”

Can u post us a copy of that?? somone may be able to clean it up/PSP it?

paul