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Nose art painted by S/Sgt Don E Allen
4th Fighter
Group, 334th Fighter Squadron
Debden, England
ILL WIND P-51B 43-6636 334th Squadron
Assigned to Capt Nicholas Megura
The crew chief Sgt Fox added
15 black and white German crosses beneath the cockpit marking Capt Megura's
impressive combat record before he was shot down in anothre aircraft on
22nd May 1944. Not all of Megura's fighter kills were scored while flying in this
aircraft but it was his regular mount. In just two months,
Capt Megura knocked down four Me109s, five Fw190s and two Me110s in aerial
combat and destroyed 2 Ju52s on the ground as well as sharing several other
victories with other pilots in the air and on the ground.
"Ill Wind" was lost 20 miles southwest of St Dizier on 9th May 1944 while
being flown by 1Lt Vernon Burroughs (POW). Capt Megura was shot down a few
days later on 22nd May and belly landed in aircraft onto Kalmar airfield
in Sweden. While tangling with three Me109s his Mustang had been shot up by
a P-38 Lightning in the dogfight.
© Ray Bowden
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