Warbird Information Exchange

Well, one way to tell it's not an A-36 is that it doesn't have the two guns under the engine.

It would have to have been piece meal.
I talked to Col England of the 530th FS a number of times
and he never mentioned A-36s just As, Cs and Ds.

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Or the landing lights in the wing!

Steve

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Here's the word from the expert on CBI fighter ops Carl Molesworth
Jack -- Good to hear from you.
The 528th FS flew A-36s and the 529th flew a mix of A-36s and P-51As from Assam in combat over Burma from fall '43 until the summer of '44, when they and the 530th FS (previously with P-51As) re-equipped with Merlin Mustangs before the transfer to China. The A-36s had a couple of encounters that produced e/a probables and damaged, but the only confirmed victories I find are 2/Lt. Wilbert McEvoy and FO Hoyt Hensley of the 529th on 10 December 1943.
Hope this helps...Carl

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I was going to add that as well, but looking where the photo cuts off the wing, I don't think the lights would even show in the picture since they are further out on the wing.

P-51D still maxed out at 6 rockets and 2 x 1000# bombs correct?

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Yes.If I remember ,the A-36 had two guns in the nose .One on each side towards the bottom.

Just finished watching a declassified video of "Servicing a A-36" which is captioned as Dum Duma India with the 10 AF.

http://arcweb.archives.gov/arc/action/E ... 2008-01-04

BTW - NO nose guns and the dive brakes in the vid were quite evident as they were deployed while armorers loaded 500lb bombs.

t~

I have a 4" long piece of shrapnel from one of Dad's 500 lb'ers that he collected at perhaps too low of an altitude. Lucky for him it lodged in the throttle quadrant of his Jug and not his personage!

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