Linwood P. Smith Lt. Col, USAF, Retired A 2 nd generation pilot muses about his love of the Mustang 2 Col. Paul Linwood Smith Lt. Col. Linwood P. Smith Major Paul N. Smith 3 Pearl Harbor the Day of Infamy All Americans called for an immediate response! 4 Atlantic City, NJ 5 Pennsylvania State College 6 Nashville, Tennessee 7 Maxwell Air Force Base, AL 8 Camden, AR The Boeing Stearman Nicknamed the Kaydet Air Force Contract Primary Flying School Training aircraft leading to the Mustang 9 The BT-13 The Air Forces Basic Trainer Greenville, MS 10 The Air Forces Advanced Trainer c The AT-6 Jackson, MS 11 Remember these from the Flying Tigers P-40 Fighter Aircraft Naples, FL 12 USS Mount Vernon 13 th Fighter Group Fighter Squadrons 503rd504th505th 15 16 Fowlmere, England 17 P-51 Cockpit 18 The Mustang was a real joy 19 Aircraft challenges 20 Initial flights in England 21 Mustangs in ground operations Attacking ground targets in support of ground troops With in-line engines they were very vulnerable to being shot down 22 P-47 Thunderbolt takes over low level work P-47 Thunderbolts were better suited to ground operations missions 23 Mustangs take over high level bomber escort 24 The 503 rd Fighter Squadron Me 25 Big Brother & Little Friends Enduring bond between bomber crews & fighter pilots of the USAAF 8 th Air Force 26 Bomber escort missions 27 Magnitude of the Daily Missions 28 Joining our bombers 29 An anxious moment! 30 Weather problems 31 Firing the guns 32 Photo missions 33 Firth of Fourth Bridge (Scotland) 34 Then and Now Linwood P. Smith Lt. Col, USAF, Retired A 2 nd generation pilot muses about his love of the Mustang