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Offline Nico Braas

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P-51 picture
« on: November 14, 2005, 10:40:34 PM »
Attached picture of P-51 taken at ILA Berlin in 2004.
It is now in IWM-UK
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Re: P-51 picture
« Reply #1 on: November 15, 2005, 12:38:08 AM »
By my information on this plane were floy Leutenant Urban Drew from the 361 FG, * Air Force and he downed two Me262 at October 7. 1944. But I wonder is this his original plane or just a Mustang with Drew personal markings?
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Re: P-51 picture
« Reply #2 on: April 03, 2007, 09:25:17 PM »
Information on Leutenant Urban Drew drowning the 2 Me 262's

http://www.elknet.pl/acestory/drew/drew.htm

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Re: P-51 picture
« Reply #3 on: April 14, 2007, 02:28:32 PM »
This photo depicts airplane of CO of 78th Fighter Group, Col. John D. Landers. Source - Squadron Signal no. 1045 - P51 Mustang in Action.
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Re: P-51 picture
« Reply #4 on: April 14, 2007, 02:48:29 PM »
Quote from: divanov on April 14, 2007, 02:28:32 PM
This photo depicts airplane of CO of 78th Fighter Group, Col. John D. Landers. Source - Squadron Signal no. 1045 - P51 Mustang in Action.

Divanov, looks like the website is wrong, the squadron markings on the image (E2) are for the 375th Fighter Sqn of the 361st Fighter Group. The 357 FS was a part of the 355 FG with a Sqn marking of - OY

A great site for information on USAAF is - http://www.armyairforces.com/dbunitsearch.asp  :-clap

Agains thanks for putting me right, it must be my age  :-wise
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Re: P-51 picture
« Reply #5 on: April 14, 2007, 04:04:42 PM »
Mfg495, sorry for confusion! You are right about "Detroit Miss", code E2-D, it's Drew's plane (source: Squadron Signal no. 6001 - Aces of the Eight) ; I was thinking (but did not tell :-wall) about P-51 which photo you have from ILA Berlin - Big Beautiful Doll! :-ok Think that Squadron Signal is valuable source. Never mind the age, if you are young in your hart, my friend!
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Re: P-51 picture
« Reply #6 on: April 14, 2007, 04:31:12 PM »
 :-ok
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Re: P-51 picture
« Reply #7 on: April 14, 2007, 06:23:01 PM »
You see that's whats great about this site, the pooling of information, always in the end we get the right info, thanks divanov.
By the way, great shots of a truly excellent aircraft, (Once they put the Merlin engine into it  :)))
« Last Edit: March 20, 2008, 10:55:20 PM by mfg495 »
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Re: P-51 picture
« Reply #8 on: April 14, 2007, 09:06:18 PM »
I'm honored to be a member of such band of brothers, mfg495. If I can help, I surely will!
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Re: P-51 picture
« Reply #9 on: April 30, 2007, 07:35:13 PM »
Hello Everyone,

Nice to see some posts about the P-51. But please be careful, there are many factual errors in the text of the Squadron Signal In Action about the P-51. The best Squadron Signal titles on the P-51 are the two Walkaround books, but even they have some strange comments.

Why do I know this? Because I am just writing a book (more like encyclopaedia) on the P-51, with a lot of imformation from the original documents from the 1940's. The documents that I have (from the manufacturer, RAF, USAAF) disprove some of the text in the Squadron Signal booklet.

Best wishes,

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Re: P-51 picture
« Reply #10 on: April 30, 2007, 07:36:58 PM »
Waiting for your book ;)
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Re: P-51 picture
« Reply #11 on: April 30, 2007, 08:08:25 PM »
Thanks No.1,

Its finished, I'm just re-typing some of it but all the basic work is done.

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Re: P-51 picture
« Reply #12 on: April 30, 2007, 08:11:13 PM »
All right :)
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Re: P-51 picture
« Reply #13 on: March 20, 2008, 10:35:56 PM »
Some more of todays harvest.  :-cool
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Re: P-51 picture
« Reply #14 on: March 20, 2008, 10:36:21 PM »
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