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Re: KITTEN
Hi Gabor. I've got a note here that 42-103950 / 78 was flown by 2/Lt. Paul L Green (302FS), survived the war and had a landing accident at one of the Foggia airfields on June 7 1945, salvaged 10 July; I don't know whether his assigned aircraft though. I would GUESS that McGee and Green flew the same P-51C (950), McGee first; he named her for his wife Francis. A second pilot wouldn't normally keep the previous name if it was someone's wife or girlfriend. There is no name for 42-103905 on the MACR, if there was a nickname it was usually included (but not always); as she was lost on 24 March with Spears (51 is a 301FS number) she had no connection to the 302nd. The 302nd was inactivated on March 6 so their older P-51Cs could have been flown to the Foggia complex for disposal; the last Group mission, a recon. to Bolzano was actually on 30 April recorded as the 311th.
Many of this C-10-NT block 42-103379--978 went to all 4-332nd squadrons.
Nick
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