now let's pause for a second and take a
look right up above us here we actually
have a very important artifact this is a
p-51 Mustang
it's a high-performing high-altitude
fighter plane mazzani what do you notice
about this plane um what I notice is
that like aside from the rest of the
planes this one has like a red tail and
it adds like different accents of red
and yellow on it but it also has the
same stars as the rest of them it's very
good observation now that red paint job
on the tail that got the Tuskegee Airmen
the nickname the red-tailed angels the
bomber pilots they would escort actually
were so happy and thankful for the job
that they did they referred to them as
the red-tailed angels and on this plane
you'll actually notice that there's a
name painted on the side the name is
bunny this plane is painted in the
likeness of dr. Roscoe brown splain
which had the name bunny and there's one
other thing on this plane you'll notice
a Nazi flag on the side that indicates
that bunny shot down a Nazi jet that
flew over a hundred miles per hour
faster than this plane flew did you fly
a plane like this one yes I did and I
ended up flying 21 combat missions
overseas in March in April of 1945 I was
19 years old at the time the war ended
in March and May of 1945 and it was a
beautiful airplane I can say I had my
rolls-royce sake at age of 19 could you
just describe what it was like for you
to like fly in a plane like this during
that time well it was our world's second
lieutenant flying a p-51 Mustang most
people consider that the best airplane
in World War
and was fast responsive and whatnot and
flying formation
I usually flew as a wingman over there
and I was a second lieutenant but also
we did a lot of strafing if we weren't
escorting bombers we'd go down over
Germany inflates before looking for
targets of opportunity to destroy car
trucks trains whatnot the de Germans may
use to move supplies around and but the
plane was so responsive much more so
than SATA p-47 so uh and it's just as
delightful