Caption | US Army African-American Staff Sergeant William Accoo, crew chief of a P-51 Mustang aircraft, washed the aircraft he was in charge of, Italy, circa Sep 1944 ww2dbase | |||||||
Photographer | Unknown | |||||||
Source | ww2dbaseUnited States National Archives | |||||||
Identification Code | 208-AA-46BB-30 | |||||||
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Added By | C. Peter Chen | |||||||
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Licensing | Public Domain. According to the US National Archives, as of 21 Jul 2010: Please contact us regarding any inaccuracies with the above information. Thank you. |
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Famous WW2 Quote
"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."Winston Churchill, on the RAF
7 Oct 2011 06:07:30 PM
TREAT HER LIKE A LADY:
With a natural metal finish many pilots kept
the fighter clean, some even put a coat of wax, to add a couple of knots of speed and in a dogfight every bit of speed helps.
Aircraft is a North American P-5B/C Mustang and was the prime variant used from Dec.1943 to Mar.1944 until the P-51D arrived in Europe
but remained in combat, until the end of the war May 1945.