Cool! Is it based around a particular aircraft?
Cheers,
Richard
certainly is….Mustang P51-D 44-13835 as below…more on my website!
Mustang P51-D 44-13835, marked up 5E-H, was assigned to Lt Willard G Erfkamp ofthe 385 Squadron,
364th Fighter Group based at Honington. It is believed that the pilot named the aircraft DAMM YANKEE.
The aircraft had blue striped nose ring with a triangle on the tail. On Mission 218, an escort to Brux on
October 7th1944, Lts. Willard Erfkamp and Elmer Taylor shot down an Messerschmitt Me163 Komet jet
which bellied-in and was strafed on the ground. The pilot was named as Fw. Rudy Zimmerman.
It is thought that Erfkamp scored this and his other victories in 44-13835.
In December 1944, Willard Erfkamp returned home to the US and his aircraft was re-assigned to
Lt Curtis A Smart who retained the name DAMM YANKEE. On 8thFebruary 1945, Lt Curtis A Smart was
forced to bale out of the aircraft. The aircraft was recovered in the 1970s/80s and remains
(including cockpit parts and makers data plate) were acquired by the ADC in the mid 1980s.
Since then, other original Mustang parts have been acquired and these together with a Packard Merlin will
form a static rebuild of at least a fuselage.
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