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My fading memory recalls the ground shots were using P-47Ds from the Puerto Rican ANG painted to resemble the P-47s from a wartime P-47 documentary. The gun camera shots are apparently whatever they could find. The P-47 combat flying footage is from the mentioned wartime documentary.
 
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Those are not early rocket rails they are late rocket rails. In the RAF jargon RPV ie Rocket Projector 5. the key issue was that the hardware/structure was jettisonable. They were first fitted to 260 Sqn in Italy in February 1945 and those aircraft were transferred to 250 Sqn after the end of the war. If the photo of Morgan was taken at the same time as the photo of the Sharkmouth Mk IV then it is most likely that this is a 250 Sqn aircraft.
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fubar57 said:
KH was 403 Squadron (RCAF) codes. Weren't these added under the wings after the war?
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2 things. (#1) Yes, the RAF applied the serial codes to the underside of aircraft wings after the war. Likely for the same reason the USAAF did-for civilians to be able to ID planes being flown too low. Squadron and plane codes in Europe and the UK, last 6 of the serial number in the US. Later that was changed to the "buzz number" system (FF-*** for Mustangs) in the US and elsewhere. But (#2) what you see here is the RAF serial not the squadron code. The RAF had 450 Mustangs of various models that were listed with a "KH" prefix. RAF Aircraft Serial Numbers Database What the photo doesn't show is the 3 digit remainder of the RAF serial number which was likely painted between the fuselage and the fuel tank/bomb mounting under the left wing.
 
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junkman3353 said:
2 things. (#1) Yes, the RAF applied the serial codes to the underside of aircraft wings after the war. Likely for the same reason the USAAF did-for civilians to be able to ID planes being flown too low. Squadron and plane codes in Europe and the UK, last 6 of the serial number in the US. Later that was changed to the "buzz number" system (FF-*** for Mustangs) in the US and elsewhere. But (#2) what you see here is the RAF serial not the squadron code. The RAF had 450 Mustangs of various models that were listed with a "KH" prefix. RAF Aircraft Serial Numbers Database What the photo doesn't show is the 3 digit remainder of the RAF serial number which was likely painted between the fuselage and the fuel tank/bomb mounting under the left wing.
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I erred, serial number, not squadron code
 
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