Chuck Older 23rd Fighter Group

[keith A]

Many thanks chums.

It seems that he is most likely flying a P-51C of 118th TRS on all of the missions I wanted details of. Probably leading the escort on the 18th December 1944.

[Franek Grabowski]

Not exactly an answer to your question, but I have never seen any document identifying aircraft assigned to pilots on particular missions, except the variant at best, eg. in a log book or Form 5 (I think, not at hand). The only such a kind of a document I have seen quoted in a book by Don Lopez. It was called flying schedule or something like that, and it listed pilots and tail nos. I have never seen a copy of such document, and I do not know if there are any of them available in the archives. Perhaps some aircrew kept copies.

[edwest2]

It appears "flying schedule" is the correct term. It is new to me. It is mentioned in the first line of the second paragraph of this article.


https://www.airforcemag.com/article/0107hellcat/