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Is that pic from the time when Ford was doing some one-off WWII-themed Mustangs?

I think that the airplane is painted up like Chuck Yeager's P-51 or at least one in his squadron.  That "B6" squadron code looks familiar.

There are a couple of picture series along those lines out there on the intertoobz, with various "new" Mustangs painted in WWII themed colors and patterns.  I'm not sure if that was a Ford thing, or an aftermarket thing.

Since you actually own one from this vintage (plus or minus  ) I'll definitely defer to you on that subject.  I just found the pics on Google search and thought they were interesting.

I really like the new body, from 2015-on.  It's pretty.  But it also looks more European, the lines are sort of Aston Martin-like, which makes for a beautiful car, but it's definitely moved away from the more raw throwback look from 2005-2014, which is why I loved those cars so much when they came out.  I'd love to have some version of your 2012.  

I do think Aston Martin is making the most beautiful cars on the planet right now, and that's quite an admission from a Ferrari fan like myself.

saw the first C8 Vette yesterday live.  Only for a bit over a block.

opened my window and could barely hear it.

looked good to me, even in blue

The Mustang II is an odd case.

If you are going to consider that the Mustang has been in continuous production since 1964, as Ford claims it has, you have to count the Mustang II as a Mustang.

Mustang IIs don't bother me too much.  I never wanted one and never would want one.  But I could say the same for the bloated '71-73 Mustangs.

The wife likes the new Mustang (convertible 5.0).

It's more liveable I think than the Camaro by a long shot.

I saw a dark blue C8 Vette today also, it was ahead of me, and I turned off into our place so didn't pass it.

They are pretty rare.

We used mostly the F4U and F6F in the Pacific, and the P-38, as fighters.  There were some P51s, I don't know if any P47s were in that theater.

The former two were carrier capable, but it was the British who figured out how to land the F4u on a carrier.

The twin engines in the P38 were viewed as an asset in the Pacific also.  That Wasp twin radial was a massive engine.  

I am now curious why the F4U had a supercharger while the P47 got a turbocharger, perhaps the less prevalent high altitude combat was a factor.

My Dad told me that the night they went down, they taxiid out on their usual plane and had a "runaway supercharger" during run up, and had to return to get another plane.  That second plane was listed as having gone down due to mechanical malfunction shortly after takeoff, but my Dad said he knew he had rolled down the radar dome before they went in and that meant they were at cruise altitude.  The official report and his account don't square, which is not a shock.  The were in the ocean for several hours.

He said the only way he could have gotten out was that the radar dome hit water first and broke the fuselage open and he floated free, his normal egress was convoluted.  The copilot went through the wind screen and the flight engineer went right after him and was relatively unhurt.  I met the copilot once, his forehead was sloped back at a weird angle from the crash.  The engineer was a man from NY named Lamica about whom my dad thought the world, and later he went missing on a flight to NZ for R&R.

I got in contact with his nephew, a Navy LtCmdr, in 2005, somehow, the family had no word on how Lamica was killed.  Maybe his mom did but she never talked about it.

I was chatting with him when I got my own "news" and lost track after that.