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P-51D-10, 44-14402, Capt. Fred R. Haviland Jr, 357
th
FS, 355
th
FG, 8
th
AF,
Steeple Morden, United Kingdom, November 1944
P-51D-10, 44-14163, Capt. John F. Tullock Jr., 358
th
FS, 355
th
FG, 8
th
AF, Steeple Morden,
United Kingdom, January 1945
Fred Haviland obtained his pilot’s license on
May 20, 1942, with the rank of 2nd Lieutenant.
He was sent to Great Britain, where he first
served with the 496
th
Fighter Training Group.
On June 11, 1944, he was transferred to the
65
th
Fighter Wing and from there to the
357
th
Fighter Squadron, 355th Fighter Group.
In January 1945, he was promoted to Major
and left the group on February 11, 1945.
He ended the war with a total score of six
enemy aircraft destroyed in the air and the
same number destroyed on the ground, making
him the second most successful pilot in the
357
th
FS. For the rest of the war, he was
transferred to the headquarters of the
65
th
Fighter Wing. Fred Haviland’s Mustang,
named “Barbara”, bore the blue identification
markings indicating its affiliation with the
357
th
FS and achieved his last two kills with this
unit.
This strikingly colored Mustang, nicknamed
“Jake The Snake”, was flown in the spring of
1945 by Capt. John Tulloch Jr. His aircraft was
decorated not only with his personal emblem,
a snake strangling a Messerschmitt, but also
with four kills on the fuselage frame and non-
standard yellow-lined fuselage codes. Like
many pilots of the time, John Tulloch Jr. had
two external rearview mirrors mounted on the
frame of his Mustang’s cockpit.
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