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Lt Frederic Arnold.
He served with the 71st Fighter Squadron, 1st Fighter Group, based at Chateau dun du Rommel, Algeria, March through June 1943 and Mateur, Tunisia, June through July 1943. Fredric Arnold completed fifty combat missions in North Africa, destroyed seven enemy aircraft, and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with nine Oak Leaf clusters. On his return from combat, he test flew America's first jet, designed and developed power steering for aircraft, and was promoted to the rank of Major at the age of twenty-three.
Limited and numbered lithograph of original painting by Rick Herter called "Strange Bedfellows. The lithograph is hand signed by the artist, Rick Herter and WW II Ace Fredric Arnold. Award winning aviation artist, Rich Herter, captures one of the most unique and ironic incidents in World War II aviation History. A Messerschmidtt Me109 flying low over the Mediterranean Sea, its fuel nearly exhausted, accepts a P-38 escort flown by Fredric Arnold to an American held airfield in Sicily.
Fredric Arnold was a P-38 Fighter Pilot in World War II. He served with the 71st Fighter Squadron, 1st Fighter Group, based at Chateau dun du Rommel, Algeria, March through June 1943 and Mateur, Tunisia, June through July 1943. Fredric Arnold completed fifty combat missions in North Africa,destroyed seven enemy aircraft, and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with nine Oak Leaf clusters. On his return from combat, he test flew America's first jet, designed and developed power steering for aircraft, and was promoted to the rank of Major at the age of twenty-three. He is also the author of the best seller book Doorknob Five Two which is the
true story of the coming of age of a young man as seen against the backdrop of World War II. Mr. Arnold is one of the few Jews who escaped from a German military POW camp.