P-51D Glamorous Glen III Graphics Set Scale:1/4

P-51D Glamorous Glen III Graphics Set Scale:1/4On March 4, 1944 during the first daylight raid escorting bombers over Berlin that Chuck Yeager, flying his P 51 Glamorous Glen shot down his first enemy aircraft. Chuck Yeager shot down a Messerschmidt Me 109 that day, unfortunately the next day on March 5th he was shot down by three FW 190s. Photo by William Stones

Aircraft Specialties

French Indochina

1945) was a United States Army major who was killed in action while serving as a member of the Army Air Forces during World War II and posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor

While strafing

P-47D-1-RE 42-7945 flown by Steve Pisanos during August 1943

and when the spray settled Maloney was seen to climb out and get into his dinghy and wave to the flight overhead

"Little Patches" landed just north of Berlin on 8th May to collect RAF prisoners of war and ferry them back to England

code LL-L 6 1944

December 10

'Turnip Termite' made an emergency landing in a minefield in San Laurent sur Mer when it ran out of fuel

It received a new Air Force serial number

escort and bombing missions