Hobby Master HA7747 1:48 North American P-51D Mustang , Louis Curdes

North American P-51D Mustang Diecast Model
USAAF 3rd ACG, 4th FS, #44-63272 Bad Angel, Louis Curdes, Laoag, Philippines, 1945

On February 10, 1945 four P-51s with Louis Curdes' "Bad Angel" and Schmidtke along with LaCroix and Scalley, were returning from an escort mission. LaCroix and Scalley flew over a small Japanese airstrip and began to attack but LaCroix was shot down and landed in the ocean and survived. Curdes circled the downed pilot when he spotted a C-47 heading for the same island and fate. To keep that from happening Curdes shot the C-47 down. It landed on the water and all passengers survived. Curdes later married a nurse that was on the C-47.