And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Anyone..... Are those three V-2 rocket kills ?
ReplyDeleteV-1. Early cruise missile.
ReplyDeleteNo, the pic shows V1s, aka Buzz bombs.
ReplyDeleteSo he is a British pilot, and not an American pilot?
ReplyDeleteCaptain Edwin O Fisher of the 362nd Fighter Group atop his P-47 Thunderbolt (serial number 42-26919) nicknamed "Shirley Jane III".
ReplyDeleteWhatever happened to Shirley Jane I and II?
DeleteWhat's the diff between the vertical bombs and slanted? And the broom on the bottom?
ReplyDeleteThe broom is for a successful fighter sweep mission, where all enemy aircraft in a defined area are to be shot down or driven off.
DeleteI dunno on the angled bomb - a bombing mission with a different bomb type, maybe glide bomb? Rocket?
Another photo:
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Looks like hes on his third plane. Wow.
ReplyDeleteThere needs to be a line for skirts.
ReplyDeleteBiography says the 7 air-to-air kills were in 35 days.
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