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And here's a challenge for ya Martin. Looks like 44-7469?


Dan: will see what I can do for you..... meanwhile here's a shot of some a/c from the same unit 8)

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Hey Martin, love the Air Guard Stuff! The Colonel was wondering if you had any Maineiacs(MEANG) F-47s? Either way keep up the good work!

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Thanks for the images Martin of the Minnesota birds as well as the 179th.

One more that's a long shot but ya never know :)

Also from Earl Miller, showing him next to some honcho's bird from the 179th.

It was a tiny photo that I scanned and blew up as best I could 5 Japanese kill markings from what I can see and clearly marked much fancier then the normal 179th bird. Curious if you've ever come across a photo of one marked his way?

Not sure if those are camera markings as well as bomb symbols below the cockpit but some sort of mission markings.
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Great photos, got any MASS ANG? 8)

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, got any MASS ANG? 8)



sure do - will post some later tonight (my time... GMT+1)


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One more that's a long shot but ya never know :)


interesting ship, indeed.... I've added it to my 'pendings' list :wink: at first glance this seems to be a 'flagship' (CO's aircraft).... and possibly taken in postwar Germany during occupation....

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Photo was taken at San Antonio Texas according to Earl Miller.
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Great photos. Do you have anything in PA ANG colors? I am working on putting a P-51D in markings of the PA ANG that was based in Pittsburgh. The aircraft is already at KPIT.

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Do you have anything in PA ANG colors?


yup

will post some tonight

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Thank you so much. I will post pics when we get the aircraft painted.

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the last minn shot is weird...... no insignia!!

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the last minn shot is weird...... no insignia!!


as I said - an early shot - also other ANG units had the national insigna removed... will post a bunch in a different thread....

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Magnificent pictures.

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Thank you very much for posting those pics. I am building a model of this aircraft from the Kentucky ANG, should you happen to have any pics of it?

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Your pics answered some questions and posed some new ones. A lot of the props seemed to be uncuffed, whereas the kit comes with cuffed prop blades. Also, a lot of the fuselages seemed to be filled and painted wings with dull bare metal fuselages, wheras the instructions lead you to believe that it was painted silver overall.

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Jens...

this KY ANG ship is on my website (you need to scroll down, it's the last photo before the RCAF section).... I have look look for the photo in my archives for a better, bigger scan...

http://www.swissmustangs.ch/20214/20268.html

as for the props - post WW2 - many P-51's, or later F-51's, received HS 24D50-105 (uncuffed) props as replacment for the standad HS 24D50-87 (cuffed) - these -105 blades also were known as 'paddle-blade props'.

As for the paint-schemes.... ANG units received their aircraft from storage where these a/c saw IRAN before delivery, which als included the fuselages to be painted - same goes for most a/c deployed to the Korean War....

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and here is a PA ANG F-51D for mustangdriver with a MASS ANG F-51H for Phantom1200 in the background....

..more to follow

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