Three days later, McCubbin was flying a P-51D Mustang when he had his most memorable aerial encounter with a host of Nazi Focke-Wulf Fw 190 fighter aircraft, as described in his combat report ...

The Fw 190 blew up in flames ... load ammunition belts in the wing of a North American P-51 Mustang in Honington, England, in1944. (National Archives) In any case, by the end of December, McCubbin ...