North American Aviation Mustang P-51 fighter plane

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North American Aviation Mustang P-51 fighter plane
Description:
View of a North American Aviation P-51 Mustang fighter plane. Label on back: "Packard News Service. Ready to reach for still higher altitudes is this new North American P-51 Mustang. Its Packard-built Rolls-Royce engine with two-speed, two-stage supercharger, greatly increases the fighting range of this lightning-like plane. Military experts describe it as the aircraft destined to be the world's outstanding fighter plane in 1945." Handwritten on back: "Aircraft in action."
Details
Resource ID:
na032515
Subject:
Mustang (Fighter plane)
North American Aviation
Rolls-Royce engines
Automotive Council for War Production--Archives
Photographic prints
Date Issued:
1942 to 1945
Format:
1 photographic print ; 8 x 10 in.
Member of:
National Automotive History Collection
Filing Location:
MS84/Automotive Council for War Production, Aircraft in action, 85:10
Rights:
Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.