This is the well known Macchi C.205 Veltro, Regia Aeronautica 51. Stormo 155. Gruppo 360. Squadriglia. Hasegawa manufactured a model with the same markings - Geo built it here some time ago.
Great shot this!!!!!!!
GB54 I'll be doing an SBD-3 from VB-5, CVA-5 USS Yorktown. Lt. John J. Powers Medal of Honor awarded posthumously after the battle of the Coral Sea. His bomb struck the Shokaku from too low an altitude to pull up. Damaged by the explosion he crashed alongside the Shokaku. Would love to find the side code for his aircraft, I been looking.
398th Bomb Group, 601st BS B-17G 43-39184 3O-U over Grafenwohr, April 5th 1945. On April 13th, this aircraft was hit by flak and ended up force landing. The copilot and engineer were declared KIA. The strategic air war only had a week or so left when those two airmen died.