P-38's NASAF-5W 6-4-43 ... ?

[Mark Allen M]

Photos only state: "Chateau Dun. 1FG (NASAF-5W) 6-4-43".

Any ideas? Stateside training? North Africa? Can make out what looks to be yellow bands around stars?

Last edited by Mark Allen M on Wed Sep 08, 2021 10:26 am, edited 1 time in total.

[RyanShort1]

Well, for starters it looks like those photos are reversed. It also appears that they are 94th Fighter Squadron aircraft.

[AG pilot]

Châteaudun in France 1st Fighter Group?

[Dan K]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chateaudu ... l_Airfield

[quemerford]

It's Chateaudun-du-Rhumel in Algeria. Used as a base for P-38s and B-17s (etc) prior to the invasions of Sicily and Italy.

[RyanShort1]

Here are the photos - flipped.

It's too bad the resolution is too small to see if Jack Ilfrey's UN-O is in the pictures.

http://www.oocities.org/pentagon/quarte ... 1stfg.html

[Mark Allen M]

Imaged corrected & thx for the info.

M