Steven P. McNicoll ) wrote:


: The aircraft are P-51Ds or P-51Ks. The red/yellow/red spinner and
: red/yellow checked band on the cowling aft of the spinner are the markings
: of the 357th Fighter Group, 8th Air Force. The codes painted on the side of
: the plane were used in Europe during WWII by the RAF and USAAF. They
: depicted the squadron it belonged to and the individual plane's identity.
: The two-letter group identified the squadron and the single letter
: identified the individual aircraft. But the code letters AS were not
: assigned to any squadron.

The pictures are blurred, of course, but the fuselage insignia
seems to have the red line through the white rectangle, which would
be, IIRC, 1947 or later.