Quality color photos of Fifth AF Lightnings are rare. This fine study is of an 8th Fighter Group pilot, posing in his mount at Biak in late 1944.

Note that the top canopy foled backwards, whilst both side windows could be wound downwards like a car ! The black box in the rear section is actually a VHF radio.

If you look carefully in the background you will see both olive drab and all-silver P-47Ds of the 35th Fighter Group. After the war Biak became a massive scrapyard for aircraft such as these, fighters and bombers alike.

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