Just completed this commission for the son of this P-51C Mustang pilot. The composition depicts an actual moment in history when this aircraft, flown by Lt. John Hunycutt of the 'Yellow Scorpions', dropped one of his two bombs on a Japanese Ki-48 'Lilly' light bomber while attacking Tsinan...
I can't believe I found it!
This is an original data plate from the incredibly rare Boeing Lockheed-Vega YB-40 / B-17F experimental bomber escort!
A/C Serial Number 6030 / Registration Number 42-5734
This YB-40 was a combat veteran that served with the 92nd BG / 327th BS as "Seymore Angel"...
Flying alone and trailing smoke, Focke Wulf Fw190A-8 (W. Nr. 155960), flown by Horst Adameit of JG 54, was heading
home towards its base near Wenden, Latvia on August 8, 1944 when it suddenly turned 180 degrees and crashed into the
forest near the village of Ergli.
P-47D Thunderbolt (42-226628) flown by 'ace' pilot Col. Fred Christensen Jr. (21.5 'victories'), of the 62nd Fighter Squadron / 56th Fighter Group - by Ron Cole
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