I'm doing a paint of maybe the most famous Hellcats of them all "Minsi III" BuNo 70143 flown by Essex CAG David McCambell and I have a question for the USN world war 2 aviation experts here at the forum:
Do anybody have any info about if the Minsi III art and Japanese kill marks were painted on both sides or only the right side? There are many pictures showing the right side with the decals, but none of the left. I know that warbirds flying today and the F6f-5 at the Naval aviation museum are painted with the decal on both sides, but I have never seen any real pictures of Minsi III with it. From what I can understand so does it looks like that many Hellcats only had the kill marks on the right side and I'm wondering if this might have been the case with Minsi III as well.
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