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Curtiss P-40M-10-CU Warhawk 43-5813 to New Zealand as NZ3119. Assembled by No.1 Aircraft Depot, Hobsonville and BoC at Hobsonville on the 21st of May 1943.
To No.2 OTU, Ohakea. Sold to J. Larsen from Rukuhia on the 2nd March 1948.
One of the last 4 Kittyhawks to be melted down, this aircraft was still extant at Rukuhia in March 1967.
Recovered from Rekuhia, NC ca 1969.
To J. Chambers and with Don Subritzky at Dairy Flat for restoration to airworthy condition 1988-2000.
To US civil registry as N5813.
Now fully restored as Kittyhawk Mk III NZ3119 XO-T with Tri-state Warbird Museum, Batavia, OH.

 

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North American P-51A-10 Mustang 43-6213 to RAF as Mustang II FR920.
Missing near Nijmegen on the 17th of January 1945, presumed shot down in error by Spitfires.

 

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North American P-51B-5 Mustang 43-6313 (335th FS, 4th FG, 8th AF) shot down by Fw 190A-7 flown by unknown pilot and unit 20 mi NE of Bordeaux, France on the 21st of March 1944.
Pilot bailed out and evaded with help from French Underground.

 

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North American P-51B-5 Mustang 43-6413 (357th FG, 364th FS) crashed E of Dutch border in Lingen, Germany due to mechanical failure on the 15th of April 1944.
Pilot bailed out and became POW.

 

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North American P-51B-5 Mustang 43-6513 (363rd FG, 380th FS, 9th AF) crashed 5 km S of Saint Savinen, France after ran out of fuel on the 29th of April 1944.
Pilot bailed out and became POW.

 

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North American P-51B-5 Mustang 43-6713 converted to F-6B after entered service.
To 162nd TRS.
In accident on the 30th of January 1945 at Azelot, France.

 

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North American P-51B-5 Mustang 43-6813 (357th FG, 364th FS, "Pappy's Answer") shot down by Fw 190A-8 flown by Lt Gerhard Vogt of JG 26/5 on the 19th of September 1944.
Pilot bailed out and became POW.

 

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North American P-51B-5 Mustang 43-6913 (4th FG, 336th FS) was *Shangri-La*, flown by Don Gentile, contained 30 kill markings.
Salvaged on the 13th of April 1944 after Gentile pranged it during a low-level buzz of the field for photographers after his last mission.
Struck ground and broke back at Debden when Gentile misjudged height.

 

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North American P-51B-5 Mustang 43-7013 (359th FG, 370th FS) crashed from unknown cause N of Lendsberg, Germany on the 21st of July 1944.
Pilot killed.

 

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Martin A-30A-10-MA 43-8470 to RAF as Baltimore V FW313.
SOC on the 14th of March 1946.

 

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Martin A-30A-10-MA 43-8513 to RAF as Baltimore V FW356.
SOC on the 27th of June 1946.

 

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Martin A-30A-15-MA 43-8613 to RAF as Baltimore V FW456.
Transferred to Royal Navy.
No record of fate

 

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Martin A-30A-20-MA 43-8670 to RAF as Baltimore V FW513.
SOC on the 14th of March 1946.

 

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Martin A-30A-20-MA 43-8713 to RAF as Baltimore V FW556.
Transferred to French AF on the 30th of June 1945.

 

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Martin A-30A-25-MA 43-8770 to RAF as Baltimore V FW613.
To Turkish AF on the 27th of October 1944.

 

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Martin A-30A-25-MA 43-8813 to RAF as Baltimore V FW656.
To Turkish AF on the 27th of October 1944.

 

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Martin A-30A-30-MA 43-8870 to RAF as Baltimore V FW713.
To Italian AF in 1945.

 

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Martin A-30A-30-MA 43-8913 to RAF as Baltimore V FW756.
SOC on the 27th of June 1946.

 

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Martin A-30A-30-MA 43-8970 to RAF as Baltimore V FW813.
DBR when tipped up on landing at Shandur, Egypt on the 22nd of January 1945.

 

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Martin A-30A-30-MA 43-9013 to RAF as Baltimore V FW856.
SOC on the 11th of April 1946.