Issue 2 - P-51 Mustang: Contents
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Marinell makes it home... D-Day – the 339th’s story... The RAF’s free-roaming fighter... Mrs. Virginia and the Air Commandos... The King’s Cliffe ‘Loco Busters’... Mustang evolution... Mustangs over Israel... Janie the former Kiwi... ‘The Duxford Eagles’... ‘Red Tail’ resurrection... The Tuskegee Airmen... NA-73X – Birth of a legendary fighter... Return to combat... Their final flight...
6 Introduction
8 Marinell makes it home
18 D-Day – the 339th’s story
28 The Mustang ‘office’
32 The RAF’s free-roaming fighter
40 Taking the Horse’s reins
44 Mrs. Virginia and the Air Commandos
52 The King’s Cliffe ‘Loco Busters’
58 Mustang evolution
64 Mustangs over Israel
68 Janie the former Kiwi
74 ‘The Duxford Eagles’
80 ‘Red Tail’ resurrection
86 The Tuskegee Airmen
88 Warbird kaleidoscope
94 Mustang target markers
102 One-trick ponies
110 ‘Little Friends’
114 NA-73X – Birth of a legendary fighter
116 He was someone who was trying to kill me, is all…
124 Return to combat
126 Their final flight
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