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Ok gang...here's the first of the "D"s off the line.
Still some major bugs to iron out, but I have discovered some interesting stuff about WR-Z along the way. For example, the A was over-painted prior to the Z being applied...I barely noticed that at first.
Also, the entire tail is white, you can see below the elevator where it terminates, and just above the rudder hinge along the top-foreward.
Bill's information was huge in getting the details and I used this image as a guide for the most part, the artwork I've seen (and that skin Dan posted) wasn't really on the money in many respects:
Great work. One quick point. Rudder white but vertical stabilzer is NMF - only rudder was white.
Yes to the A, no to A. Kinnard gave his WR-A 44-14305 Man O War to Brown when Kinnard went to 4th to take over for Blakeslee. Kinnard also scored on 9/11 shooting down a 109 in the air and getting an Me 410 on the ground at Halle. His a/c was QP-A Man O War and is on the Hasegawa 1/32 scale P-51D
Here is another view of WR-Z 44-14305 taken literally days before the 9/11 mission right after Kinnard left 355th
Hmmm...if the vert isn't painted, then it's a trick of the light on the panel surfaces..ok, no prob...easy to fix!
I'll add that to my list of adjustments such
Speaking of lighting, notice how the angle of the sun washed out the kills on the first of the last two pics?
And the artwork on the book cover is cool, and when did they go to black ID bands and a red rudder? Would that have been in October 44?
Hmmm...if the vert isn't painted, then it's a trick of the light on the panel surfaces..ok, no prob...easy to fix!
No pics Bill....
Fairly simple??? For whom????Bill said:Dan - dad's chase was fairly simple. Dive, catch, shoot - dodge debris, pull out near deck - 2.) see, chase, catch, shoot, over run while it crashes in field, 3.) see, chase, hit w/deflection shot at 300 yards, close, hit some more, see glycol streaming, see air around him fill up with 20mm flack, perform 180, get the hell out of there.
Fairly simple??? For whom????
Superman???
PLEASE MAKE ANY CORRECTIONS NOW BILL.....
Goin by the combat report and several other pieces of info u were kind enough to provide Bill, this is whats gonna happen, IF I can get the IL2 game engine to cooperate... All D models will be D-5's, B-15 w/Malcom Hood will be P-51C, Birdcage Dragon Wagon will be B... All -51's have dual droptanks...
Red Yellow Flights of The Steeple Morden Strafers 354th Fighter Squadron of the 355th Fighter Group
Red Flight
Marshall Jane III
Zimmerman Thunder Wagon Shotdown/Crash Aliied Lines
Johnson Sweet Dorsey
Rafferty The Iowa Beaut KIA Flak
Yellow Flight
Brown Red Arrow
Spencer Dragon Wagon
Preist Weepin Deacon II
Woolard ---
Take Off Steeple Morden 9/11/44 0943 hrs
Rendevouz near Koblenz @ 24k feet with 24 B-24's of the 578th Bomber Squardon of the 392nd Bomb Group @ 21k feet @ 1120 hrs
At approx 1148 hrs, observe several flights (16 total 109's form 9. 11./JG53) of aircraft approaching from 11'oclock high (27k feet)
Aircraft thought to be freindly overfly B-24 formation, split-ess and attack in dive from 5'oclock posistion....
Red Yellow Flights drop tanks and dive after 109's that have made one pass diving through formation....
Bert Marshall (Me flying) picks out 2 trailers in the dive, aims for the leader of the Rotte, and at approx 11k feet opens fire at 350yds and sees strikes all over him....
Pull off to the right, almost into cumulus clouds, as his #3 Johnson sees him explode, which is obscured by my left wing...
Immeditaly chase down #2 109 to the deck, getting in a couple bursts... On the deck he overtakes him and opens fire at 200yds-50yds, seeing strikes all over e/a....
Pull off and away and aircraft crashes into field, breaks off tail and crashes into fence.... Lt Johnson #3 comes in and strafes e/a....
While pulling off, he sees another 109 @ 11'oclock @ 1,000feet and gives chase, dropping down to the deck in his pursuit... Open fire at 300yds, sees strikes all over... E/a evasive maneuvering, a few more strikes, and the whole world explodes....
Near Hochelhim, a 20mm Flak Train opens up on Red Flight, hitting Rafferty and Zimmerman.... Rafferty goes in 1 mile from train and is KIA.... Zimmerman takes his shot up crate back to Allied lines and crashlands, returns to Steeple Morden...
Bf 109G-6 contines to circle over town.... Later crash lands in flames, pilot has 3x .50 cal wounds which remove major meat and keep pilot out of War...
Bert does a 180 and heads home, no strafing attacks commenced....