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John,have you ever gotten to sit and talk with Bud Anderson? hes kinda shy,but he will talk once comfortable.i lost his number after i moved to utah (lost all my contacts,sighs).. but Buds a really nice guy,shoot him your interest and knowledge of P-51s and i know he will speak to you,hes 101? this year i think. but i called him on his 100th and he was still very sharp.
That is a great article! I had been planning on doing the repaint since this past fall, and when I read the recent issue of Aeroplane, it got me energized to finally get it made.
Back in the early 2000s, the History Channel had a brilliant series called "Battle Stations", which I recorded the episode on the P-51 and would replay it often (to get my Mustang fix, back before sites like Youtube sprang up). In that episode, there are great segments of interviews with original WWII Mustang pilots, one of them being Don Blakeslee. You can get sort of a sense of the character he had by his great responses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVCe2dZMc0w