[Gunther]

I've been off this site for a long time and haven't tried to read all the posts on this thread--that would be a book which we can all hope Brian will publish! There was an incident over the Indochina coast Jan 12 '45 when Marine Corsairs off the Essex shot down a 14th AF B-24. I've seen the file in USMC archives, containing a still photo from the F4U gun camera. It's somewhat blurry but clearly shows no star/bar on the wings and apparently none on the fuselage. The CAP was vectored to investigate the bogey, which opened fire. The marines ID'd it as a Liberator but because it shot at them, they figured it was Japanese-flown. Presumably it was from the 308th BG, the only Lib unit I know of in 14th AF.