A pair of Mustangs of the 20th Fighter Group on a sheet in 1:32 scale. Captain Ernest C. Fiebelkorn flew the machine with the serial number 44-11161, the code LC and the letter N, named June Nite. The second subject is 44-13761 with the code MC and the letter I, whose pilot was Jack M. Ilfrey and whose name was Happy Jacks Go Buggy.
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This sheet brings together two pilots of the 20th Fighter Group, whose machines operated from English bases over occupied Europe. The group was divided into several squadrons and the subjects come from two of them, which can be told from the two-letter code on the fuselage. From one package the modeler can therefore choose between two different color combinations of code letters.
Captain Ernest C. Fiebelkorn was among the pilots whose names appear regularly in the lists of the group. His P-51D carried the serial number 44-11161, the code LC and the individual letter N on the fuselage, and the name June Nite on the nose. The LC combination refers to the 77th Fighter Squadron.
The second machine, with the serial number 44-13761, had the code MC and the letter I, that is, the markings of the 79th Squadron, and its pilot was Jack M. Ilfrey. The name Happy Jacks Go Buggy belongs among the more playful inscriptions that appeared on the noses of American fighters. It is one of those nicknames that followed a pilot across several aircraft, so the same name can be found on other machines this man flew as well.
American fighter units in England carried a pair of letters for the squadron on the fuselage and, behind the national insignia, one more letter for the particular aircraft. For the builder this has a practical consequence: from the code it is possible to trace where the unit was based, what color its propeller spinner tended to be and what the recognition stripe on the tail surface looked like. Both subjects on the sheet have a different code, so they will differ in color details too.
The backing releases in water and the markings are transferred onto the painted model. For the build you need a P-51D kit in 1:32 scale, paints and gloss clear under the decal; none of that is in the package.
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