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There's been speculation that the reason for Shomo's relative ease of shooting down seven aircraft is that: A) The P-51 was relatively new to the Pacific theater and, therefore, unfamiliar to the Japanese pilots. and B) that, at a distance, the P-51 bears a resemblance to the Kawasaki Ki-61 with its inline engine and belly radiator. Thus, Shomo could get very close to his targets without being detected.--Phyllis1753 (talk) 20:48, 16 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:William A. Shomo/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.
On January 11th the day in which Captain Shomo shot down his seven aircraft he was flying a F-6D-10 (Armed Photo Reconaisance version of the P-51D-10) 44-14841 "SNOOKS-5TH" which was numbered "66". Shortly thereafter Shomo was promoted to Major and was assigned a new Mustang, P-51D-20 44-72505 "THE FLYING UNDERTAKER" on the port nose and "SNOOKS-5th" on the starboard nose which was also assigned the number "66". It is this airplane in which most of the surviving pictures were taken.
Pictures of both aircraft can be found in the book "Mustang and Thunderbolt Aces of the Pacific and CBI" by John Stanaway from the OSPREY AIRCRAFT OF THE ACES #26 from pages 38-42.
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