Sturmovik Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 (edited) Found this short video of Horbaczewski's Mustang Mk.III PK-G probably taxiing on an RAF airfield during the D-Day landings. It sports a full suit of D-Day ID bands on the rear fuselage and wings (with the fuselage ones being irregularly painted). The aircraft is also carrying two bombs under the wings. Does anyone know if this P-51 flown by Horbaczewski flew as a pure fighter (no bombs, just the external fuel tanks) over the skies of Normandy? Edited August 8, 2022 by Sturmovik Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveBrooking Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 This aircraft is FB382 Horbaczewski only flew a handful of missions on this aircraft. It may have flown in the pure fighter role (as you say). During the run up to D-day and during the invasion/breakout period all RAF Mustangs flew with bombs most of the time. But if a squadron put up 12 aircraft for an operation quite often they had 8 aircraft with bombs and 4 aircraft without bombs as a kind of escort/top cover. You would need to check the squadron ORB to to see if it provides the detail about Horbczewski/FB382. Steve 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturmovik Posted August 8, 2022 Author Share Posted August 8, 2022 21 minutes ago, SteveBrooking said: . It may have flown Enough for me. The bombs make the Mustang look ugly, even though it was used in the ground attack role. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul J Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 Lovely footage. Not seen that one before. What's more, the airfield in question is the ALG at Coolham West Sussex Only 2 mies from where I Live!! There is a.memorial sited at the Selsey Arms pub erected 1994. The units that operated from there were 129, Mysore with Commonwealth Pilots 306 and 315 Polish Squadrons from April 44 to late July Later a wing of Spitfires moved up from Selsey. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
303sqn Posted August 9, 2022 Share Posted August 9, 2022 This, and a number of other films made by the Polish Air Force Film Unit can be found on the Polish Squadrons Remembered site: http://www.polishsquadronsremembered.com/ Put your pointer on 'much more' and click on movies. They do not play on line, you have to download them. Click on the picture/icon and the save to window will come up. Most of the links to Pathe News no longer work. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrzeM Posted August 13, 2022 Share Posted August 13, 2022 Hi, the story and achievements of this aeroplane piloted by Horbaczewski are well described here by renowned Wojtek Matusiak: http://armahobbynews.pl/en/blog/2022/02/24/the-legendary-mustang-pk-g-of-s-ldr-dziubek-horbaczewski/ We featured it as this plane is a boxart plane (with fuel tanks, not bombs!) of our 1/72 Mustang Mk.III kit: It flew more than a few purely fighter missions and shot down both German planes and V1 missiles. So the no-bomb configuration is fully justified. Best! G. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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