Just noticed that photo's from my friend, the late Jeff Ethell's collection.. He was killed flying a P-38 (He entered a flat-spin after losing power in one engine and never recovered) on my anniversary with my third wife, 6 Jun 97... Jeff had arguably the finest collection of WW2 color aircraft photos I've ever seen. So many, in fact, that I never would have been able to look at all of them in a single day... His Dad and my Dad had been friends (and both flown P-38s an P-51s), so I guess it was natural that Jeff and I hit off too.. We didn't get to see much of each other though, so we'd link up at the CAF Airsho in Midland every year. He'd written many books and article about flying combat aircraft, especially fighters, enough that the USAF gave him his own callsign, "Fighterwriter"...
Matter of fact, we were supposed to go flying together at Midland that very year in September, as he was going to be doing some more of his "Roaring Glory" videos, this time featuring the A-26 Invader.