Flight Journal

A Mustang’s Biography

eter’s “Jumpin’ Jacques” is a P-51D-20-NA, built at North American’s Inglewood factory in California. Accepted by the USAAF on December 21, 1944, with the tail number 44-72035, she was originally planned for the Eighth Air Force in England, but this was changed. Leaving California on January 4, 1945, she arrived in New Jersey on January 10. She left by boat on January 24, bound for Italy, where she would be

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