Can't remember, unless you are thinking of Richard Bong, who flew the Lightning during the war, and the highest-scoring ace. His plane sits on a pedestal at an AFB in Jersey. I think he was, ironically, killed in a crash as a test pilot after the war. Ironically, as Patton died in a Jeep crash, after the war. They went through all that they did, then died in peacetime. Weird.
No. Bong I know flew 38's in the Pacific. Ball (and i'm sure its his name) flew '47's over Germany.