Taiwan S-70C SAR crew:

http://focustaiwan.tw/news/aipl/201402020017.aspx

Selective mis-identification does help. In THE DECISIVE DUEL, p. 108, I have a description from Werner Kreipe, chief of staff of the Luftwaffe on V-E day, who commanded III/KG 2 over Dunkirk, describing how his unit was defeated by “Spitfires” on 27 May. I note that it was actually Hurricanes, mainly from 17 Squadron, that he encountered.

While most of the photos seem to have been done at Douglas and North American plants in southern California in 1942, Shulman’s Market was in Washington DC and its long gone.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-guernsey-24014451

The illustrated history of the 1st Air Commando Group published in the US (By Schiffer) has some photos of their Norsemen with the five white stripes and question mark insignia. Also, suggest the artist check the antennas, as some of this units’ aircraft had British radios fitted as well.

Unfortunately, as this article shows, the US government continues to fail in similar issues to those discussed in this thread, despite having made vastly more resources (and rhetoric) devoted to the task than the UK government.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ap-impact-mia-work-acutely-dysfunctional

This is small insular, stuff, chaps.

The real prize lies in Russia. A recent issue of the AIR BRITAIN magazine made reference to it. A secret reserve collection of about 100 Second World War aircraft, hangared since 1945. An “airplane GULAG”. Over 30 years ago, I was told about it on a “nudge, nudge, wink, wink, say no more” not for attribution basis by an individual who claimed to have seen photographs taken while they were moving airplanes out of the hangar to reposition them, and one was an Albemarle, still on its tricycle gear.

So, our Russian friends need to stop looking in lakes and see what’s in the hangars.

The most-publicized F8U (as it then was) folded wing incident was off Naples in the early 60s. I remember it as the cover story in an issue of RAF FLYING REVIEW some 50+ years ago.

A BT2D also did this in 1945-46, I believe from NAS Quonset Point, unfortunately with fatal results.