A P-80A-1 using the Fox 3 conversion set and decals for Lil' Abner, a plane flown by Rex Barber (who shared credit with Thomas Lanphier for shooting down Yamamoto's Betty). Later P-80's had a black panel on the nose in place of the landing light that covered a radio direction finder antenna. The P-80A-1 cockpit was 9 inches further aft than later P-80's with ejection seats. Early P-80's were not built with ejection seats although many were later retrofitted with them.
I don't know if it was this particular P-80, but there is a story of Rex Barber flying under a bridge near his home town in Oregon:
https://pamplinmedia.com/msp/129-news/130232-a-bridge-and-a-hero.html
ODOT officials in Central Oregon have entertained the notion of changing
the bridge's name with enthusiasm, and are preparing to send a proposal to
the Oregon Transportation Commission. "We don't often get an opportunity
to consider naming a highway feature after a prominent local citizen so
we're looking forward to working with this," said Bob Bryant, ODOT's
Region 4 Manager. And if the powers that be are looking for one more
reason to support the placing of Rex Barber's name upon the new $18
million bridge, they need hear nothing more than this story: Sometime
during what was believed to be the year 1945, a gathering of Central
Oregon folks lined up on the High Bridge, which was replaced by the
Crooked River Bridge last October, to watch Barber's piloting antics in
action. He was on leave with a buddy. Both were flying a new P-80 Shooting
Star, the Air Force's first operational jet fighter. Against better
judgment, they were going to fly into the Crooked River Canyon and swoop
under the High Bridge that carries Highway 26. "The way the story is told,
there were lots of people standing on the bridge watching," said Rex
Barber Jr. "Dad flew under the railroad bridge first and the High Bridge
no problem." But the pilot following Rex Barber Sr. hit some turbulence
and had to pull up between the bridges and nearly collided with the High
Bridge and the people on it. "It was a pretty dumb thing to do," said
Margaret Barber. Added Rex Jr.: "If his buddy had hit the bridge Dad would
have still be in the brig. "But back then the war was over, they were
heros and they could do whatever they wanted to do." It was a long
struggle straighten out the history books for Barber and his colleagues.
Maybe honoring the Jefferson County native with a bridge in his name won't
be such a daunting task.