Miscellaneous Photo Gallery
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Don Gentile posing in front of a P-51D "Shangri-La". Gentile flew the P-51B only durting his tour of operations but crashed it when showing off at low level in front of reporters. This aircraft, a P-51D, was assigned to him upon his return to the US for PR purposes. | |
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Another staged shot showing armourers ready to reload the P-51's guns with .50 ammo. (Photo: USAF) (Source: Wikipedia) | |
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Another view of the Downey production line. The Mustang was designed in a modular fashion, with 3 fuselage sections and 2 wing sections. Each section was built separately before the entire aircraft was assembled. | |
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The P-51D assembly line at Downey some time in 1944. The P-51 was one of the first fighters designed to be easily mass-produced. |
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