This Portrait Is Of The Artist, Then A Second Lieutenant Based In Darwin, Australia, With The Eighth Fighter Squadron, 49th Group, Commanded By Squeeze Wirthsmith. Our Mission Was To Intercept (No Kidding) Japanese Attack On Darwin. The Unique Color Of The P-40 Was Due To Their Being Lend Lease To The Aussies, Thus No Camouflage, No Belly Blue. The Name On The Plane, Dollye, Remains My Wife Of Forty Years. I Should Add That We Operated Out Of 27 Mile, A Dirt Strip Alongside A Dirt Highway That Ran From Adelaide Through Alice Springs To Darwin.