Question about D-Day markings

[pepto]

I've been looking for resources on P-51 markings, specifically during D-Day, even more specifically about invasion stripes. Personally I love the look of the black and white stripes both on the bottom and top of the wing, take Crazy Horse (one of my favorites) for example

 

The same can be seen on other Stangs like Quicksilver, but I never see them in actual historical pictures, more commonly I see the black and white stripes on the bottom of the wing and a single black stripe on the top, as shown here

 

[mkiii]

Try this:-

 

http://s7.photobucket.com/user/Bomber_12th/media/vf-b2.jpg.html

 

and this:-

 

 

and this:-

 

 

and the ones at the bottom of this page:-

 

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/showthread.php/58164-History-and-Details-of-the-P-51D-5-NA-(A-Flight-Sim-Project)/page3

 

It might be that the single top stripe is just wrong.

 

Heres the official blurb:-

 

"Distinctive Marking - Aircraft"

dated April 18, 1944, which specified the form of the invasion stripes to

be applied the day before the D-Day assault:

"2) Scope

a. the instructions contained herin will apply to the following types of

US and BRITISH aircraft: (I) Fighters and figher-bombers. ..."

 

 

"4) Distinctive Markings

a Single Engine Aircraft. (1) Upper and lower surfaces of aircraft listed

in paragraph 2 a above, will be painted with five white and black stripes,

each eighteen inches wide, parallel to the longitudinal axis of the

airplane, arranged in order from center outward; white, black, white,

black, white. Stripes will end six inches inboard of the national

markings. (2) Fuselages will be painted with five parallel white and black

stripes, each eighteen inches wide, completely around the fuselage, with

the outside edge of the rearmost band eighteen inches from the leading

edge of the tailplane."

 

 

"d) Stripes will in no case be painted over the national markings which

will take precedence. Wing stripes wil extend from leading edge to

trailing edge. Special equipment such as deicer boots, will not be painted

over."