Mustang IV in ACSEA

[bearoutwest]

Hi Alex,


SOC = Struck Off Charge, which means taken off RAF service and covers a host of designations ranging from destroyed on operations through to an allocated service serial reserved for an actual aircraft but not actually used.


I have no doubt that a lot of aircraft production was planned for the Far East - Burma, Operation Zipper (the planned Allied invasion of Malaya), the eventual invasion of the Japanese Home Islands, etc. I would be keen to know how many of the serials in Air Britain actually corresponded to US c/n as produced and shipped aircraft. I don't have anything at hand to confirm or deny this fact.


600 (Baugher's numbers) long-range late-model Mustangs seems a very large number to scrap in-situ in India, especially as some UK-based squadrons were using their Mustang IV's until 1947.



...geoff