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s/n 44-13859, Lt. Walter Mullins, 55th FS, 20th FG, 8th AF, Kings Cliffe,

United Kingdom, September 1944

Besides marking the aircraft with girlfriends, children or wife’s names, drawings of the sparsely clad ladies decorated some aircraft

noses. Its artistic appearance depended on the ground personnel

skills, if any could be found at the unit level. One of the Mustangs

that sported the “pin up girl” artwork was the aircraft belonging to

55th FS flown by Lt. Mullins. Factory finish was supplemented with

the olive color coat on the fuselage and wings upper surfaces. 55th

FS affiliation is further confirmed by the fuselage code KI as well as

the black triangle on the vertical tail surface and the rudder carrying the plane’s individual letter in white color.

Historically first release of the version without the dorsal fin fillet

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INFO Eduard - October 2019