Two aircraft of the 99th. Fighter Squadron, 332nd Fighter Group, take off for a local patrol, while other aircraft prepare for a long-range escort mission during early 1945.
On March 21st 1945, 361st Fight Group P-51 Mustangs conducted a target escort mission to Plauen. Lt. Harry M. Chapman destroyed a Me-262 jet near Wittenberg. While banking to see his kill, he is attacked by an Me-109, which is in turn attacked by another Mustang.
Flight Officer Charles Brantley, Tuskegee pilot of the 100th. Fighter Squadron, guns down a German Me 262 jet on March 24, 1945, en route to Berlin. Below, German troops and a Luftwaffe anti-aircraft detachment are in confusion.
In a scene repeated on scores of missions in 1944 and 1945, often over German air space, the pilots of the 332nd Fighter Group answer the distress call of a crippled bomber crew of the 15th Air Force.
Companion print to certain editions/packages of Robert’s book, A Brush with History. 250 Single print. $55 Individually signed by Lt. Robert ‘Punchy’ Powell Jr. of the 352nd Fighter Group
April 12, 1945. The P-51 Mustang ‘Creamer’s Dream’ flown by Lt. Charles L. White of the 301st Fighter Squadron, Tuskegee Airmen, shoots down an Me-109 in Austria.