F4U-1A (BuNo 17652) Ens. Frederick J. ‘Big Jim’ Streig, November 1943. Streig served two combat tours with VF-17 ‘Jolly Rogers’ and finished with 6 confirmed aerial victories. The aircraft depicted is from his first tour, and is a pretty typical F4U-1A and...
P-47D-11-RE, Lt. Col. Francis ‘Gabby’ Gabreski, 56th Fighter Group, USAAF, late December 1943. Francis ‘Gabby’ Gabreski was stationed in Hawaii on December 7th, 1941 and was one of the handful of American pilots to get airborne during...
