Tuskegee Airmen P-51D "Duchess Arlene."
North American P-51D-15-NA 44-15648 
1/Lt. Robert W. Williams 
100th FS/332nd FG, 15th AF 
Ramitelli, Italy March 1945


Skin by John "Skycat" Turner.
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This file contains a replacement skin for Rammjager's "Six Gun Whore" (v.1) P-51D model for Jane's WWII Fighters game. 
It installs the paint scheme for "Duchess Arlene." 

Lt. Robert Williams of the 100th FS, 332nd FG inherited this Mustang from Lt. Spurgeon Ellington. This P-51 was originally 
called "Lollipoops II" after Ellington's wife. Williams kept the pin-up art and re-named it in honor of his sweetheart, 
Arlene Roberts. Lt. Williams destroyed two FW 190s, both on March 31, 1945. In total he flew 50 combat missions. He was 
awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal with six Oak Leaf Clusters and the Presidential Distinguished Unit 
Citation. Williams later wrote the original manuscript for the award winning 1995 HBO film "The Tuskegee Airmen" with his 
character portrayed by actor Laurence Fishburne. In some references Williams' rank is listed as 'Captain.'


In creating this skin, I borrowed freely from earlier Mustang skin mods created by other artists:
-- Rammjager, of course, who created the original model, textures and paint kit that is this skin's basic foundation;
-- The Flying Dutchman's P-51B paint template, which I used for restoring panel lines in the deep red tail;
-- Hammerd's original 'Jane's' P-51D paint template to create the distant view textures;
-- MEGA's "Baby Mine" for damage textures and the basic installation package structure;
-- "Angel's Playmate" skin (artist unidentified) for the weathered anti-glare panel on the nose;
-- Crager's "Iron Ass" for the red spinner texture;
-- Johnny Red's "Troublemaker" for wing textures without black identification stripes;
-- Johnny Red's "Blondie" for rudder damage textures.

In addition, I've been directly and indirectly influenced by the work of many modders, far too many to begin to name. 
Specifically, for this project, Kolodziejski Dariusz's "Millie The P" inspired me to improve the contrast on the national 
insignia (stars and roundels) on the wings and fuselage.   
 


Installation
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Before installing this, or any other, custom modification, you are advised to make a backup of your original ww2.sqs archive. Note 
also that Rammjager's P-51D v.1 model must be installed prior to installing this skin; this skin will NOT work with the game's 
default Mustang model or with Rammjager's "Whore" version 2 model.

This package includes high resolution (512x512) textures only.  Older video cards may not be able to handle this higher resolution. 
If the high resolution version is installed on a system with an inadequate video card, a crash to desktop will likely occur during 
the game. 

Extract the contents of this Zip file and then move, copy or place the enclosed "Duchess Arlene" folder into your WWII Fighters\Data 
directory.  Assuming the game is installed to the default location on your drive, the folder will go here: C:\Program Files\Jane's Combat 
Simulations\WWII Fighters\Data. Then, double-click the "INSTALL_Duchess Arlene.bat" icon inside the "Duchess Arlene" folder to install the skin.
     
This will open up a DOS session and the installation will proceed in this window. A message "INSTALLING P51D DUCHESS ARLENE" will 
be displayed. When the installation is complete, a message saying "INSTALLATION OF P51D DUCHESS ARLENE...CLOSE DOS SESSION" will be displayed 
in the window.  Close the DOS session by clicking on the X close button in the top right corner of the window.