profile of "Glamourous Glenn II"

[gilles collaveri]

hello,

I am looking for a color profile of the P51B "Glamourous Glenn II" that Chuck Yeager was flying when he was shot down in March 1944 near Bordeaux.

PRECISION: I don't need the Silver P51D "Glamourous Glenn III" with red and yellow checkers on the nose, but the "GG II", which was be olive drab, I guess.

If somebody could provide me a link, I would be grateful for that.

GC

[cheruskerarmin]

Hi,

i think you mean

serial 43-6763 P-51B B6-Y Yeager Maj. Charles E "Chuck" Glamourus Glen Misspelling as per a/c. Lost in this a/c 5 March 44 - Evaded. a/c named after wife MACR 2788

instead of


serial 44-13897 P-51D 363 B6-Y Yeager Maj. Charles E "Chuck" Glamorous Glen II (L & R) Lost 18 Oct 44 - Lt. Horace M Roycraft KIA



Glamorous Glen II was already a D-mustang, as well as G. Glen III.

Even Glamorous Glen II still was painted overall OD with white stripes on wings, so it seems most likely Glamorous Glen was OD too. Some B-models in 357th FG however were painted upper half OD and lower half (fuselage) NMF alu.

Best wishes

[gilles collaveri]

you are right, and thanks for the details and precisions I ignored.

I am actually looking for the P51 that was shot down on March 5, 1944,

(the reason why is that I found some parts of this very aircraft on the crash site, and I would like to see what this aircraft looked like).

Thanks again

GC

[cheruskerarmin]

Here it is:

P-51B Glamourus Glen

The yellow/red checkered nose was introduced first end of march 1944, so the nose was still painted white on 5th of march.

[gilles collaveri]

great thanks a lot.

GC

[gilles collaveri]

I come back on Chuck´s P51B profile:

did the "4" of the serial number (the first number) appear on the fin of the aircraft or not ?

Thanks

Gilles

[Peter Randall]

No it did not, so the model is wrong, and neither did it have the aerial wire from the fin so the profile is also wrong.
Peter

[gilles collaveri]

Thanks a lot Peter.

Gilles

[Pilot]

No archive images of this machine?

[Peter Randall]

This is the only one that I have:
http://www.littlefriends.co.uk/galle...&searchString=

Peter