Japanese P-51 Mustang Evalina

[Spad VII]

" On January 16, 1945, an event occurred that gave the Japanese military a chance to become much more familiar with the Mustang. On that day, 1.Lt. Oliver E. Strawbridge of the 26th Fighter Squadron, 51st Fighter Group, was hit by enemy gunfire and landed at the Japanese-held Suchin airfield in China."





Evalina was finally grounded by a burned-out generator. Two P-51Ds were reportedly captured in mainland Japan in 1945, but their fate is unknown
© Gaëtan Marie / Jeffrey Ethell's “Mustang, a documentary history”.

[monse]

Interesting historical information.

Evalina, the famous P-51 captured by the Japanese, is included in the comics Burma Banshees
(tome 3 : Objectif Broadway - author : Yann / Hugault).

But in a totally fictious way : Evalina was too invaluable as a tool of evaluation and training for the Japanese to take the risk to send it back on the front.
source : http://www.aerostories.org/~aerobiblio/article5292.html

[camelbeagle]

Very Interesting!

[milcoll73]

another stranger in a strange land. id imagine there was a lot of envy of her pilot after capture.