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10-04-2007, 09:10 AM
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#1 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Minnesota
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Country:  | 325th Fighter Group P-51 - Checkertails Pics wanted
Looking for pictures of 325th FG - Checkertail P-51D Mustangs. In particular looking for pics of mounts named Stout Burr Bon, Hell's Outcast, and Belligerent Betts, but all pics are welcome. | 
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10-04-2007, 10:19 AM
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#2 | | the old Sage
Join Date: May 2004 Location: Platonic Sphere
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Country: | trying to download a P-51 Stang pic..........dang not working at the moment | 
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10-04-2007, 10:32 AM
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#3 | | the old Sage
Join Date: May 2004 Location: Platonic Sphere
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Country: | well a little something, my pics of the 325th fg are buried | |
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10-04-2007, 10:41 AM
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#4 | | Senior Member
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Country: | Thanks, I like the one in the background. Don't think I've seen a 325th aircraft with a Checkered nose as well. | |
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10-04-2007, 10:43 AM
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#5 | | the old Sage
Join Date: May 2004 Location: Platonic Sphere
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Country: | friend, sometimes the rear checkers really came down the fuselage and not just around the tail surface, that was a real late war mod and not on all a/c as ace and friend Art Fiedler told me. his a/c did not have this I am having PC probs this morn sadly so downloading is becoming a real pain in the arse
hopeful I can bring up more later for you
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10-04-2007, 10:47 AM
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#6 | | "Shooter"
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Country: | I met Art at the Camarillo media day event. Oddly enough, we talked about photography!
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10-04-2007, 11:53 AM
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#7 | | Siggy Master
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Country:  | Unfortumately I've found a colour profil of "Belligerent Betts" and a pic of another a/c of 325FG only. 
Source unknown.
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10-04-2007, 12:03 PM
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#8 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Minnesota
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Country: | Thanks, that profile is very helpful. Not a lot of Pics of this Group on the net. Have a couple books on the 325th, but not a lot of pics of particular aircraft. | |
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10-04-2007, 01:18 PM
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#9 | | Siggy Master
Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Poland
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Country: | Yes,it's true really not a lot of pics in Internet.I have some early B/C version in some books and magazines but not P-51Ds
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10-04-2007, 01:28 PM
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#10 | | Senior Member
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Country: | Got one book on the Checkertails with a lot of pictures, but other than that one there is not much information on them. I'm sure there was just more public interest and emphasis on the England based 8th AF than the other theaters. | |
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10-04-2007, 01:30 PM
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#11 | | the old Sage
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Country: | well the 31st and the 325th fg's were the hard core killers in the 15th AF. anyone think that photography of the units A/C was not permissable ? It happened with the LW time and time again esepcially with the Night fighters | |
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10-05-2007, 02:43 AM
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#12 | | Junior Member
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Eagle | |
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10-05-2007, 06:31 AM
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#13 | | Siggy Master
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Country: | Nice pics Eagle. 
It seems that the description "Belligerent Betts" on P-51D in the first pic wasn't yellow like in the colour profile, I've found. What is more, the strip around the fuselage ,where the Chackertail painting starts ,looks to me like a yellow one but not black as the profile shows.
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03-15-2008, 04:32 PM
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#14 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Salem, Oregon
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Country: | Here are some 325th FG photos. I have quite a few in my collection. The stripe that boarders the checkerboard is red. 
P-51D #00 s/n 44-63165 Maj Grant Smith 
Lt Terry's B 
1Lt Carl Morey 318/325 
Maj Smith has a beer after his ME-109 kill 
Capt Bill Whisler 318/325 
Grant Smith & RD Newell 
Capt Harry Parker 318/325 KIA | |
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06-22-2008, 01:25 AM
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#15 | | Junior Member
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Country:  | Hello, I'm looking for some pics, color profile or description of camouflage of P-51D-15-NA s/n 44-15357 with nickname "Stonewall II" and number 43. Pilot was 2/Lt.William C. Margetts, he crash landed near Pelhrimov city, Czech republic at 28th December 1944 01:10PM after engine failure. | |
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