Vultee Vengeances.
mmitch,
I'd be very grateful if you could get a PM to the Thread Starter (or open Post, doesn't matter), because it seems to be more than I can manage with my limited skill.
The easiest way for everybody would be to invite him onto our Thread on PPRuNe, even just as a guest, for then he could pick my Posts up from # 2548 p.128 onward and learn all I know about the VV from my stories. If he wanted, he could apply to register and ask me questions on open post.
I know Airfix did a 1/72 model of a VV around '68, might be some left yet.
I've seen one of the other VV photos you mention. It was my aircraft, with me flying it, over the Western Ghats near Cannanore in '45 ! (I've a copy of it in my logbook). It's my favourite Mk.III, FB986, bearing its old Sqn letter 'M'. He thinks it's a 110 aircraft, may well have been at one time (although I think the Mk.IIIs only came in after the Squadrons pulled off ops), and had later been handed down to me.
It's a splendid illustration of the underwing spray tanks, which he thinks are for some kind of smoke spray, but of course were for the mustard gas my unit sprayed for the Chemical Defence Research Establishment trials.
Small, small world ! (The Aussies used the Mk.IVs out there - their 12 Sqn - might be some of their old-timers alive).
I'll leave it to you, mmitch, with hopeful thanks,
Danny.