A flight of P 51 Mustangs of the 339th FG, under the command
of their leading Ace, Francis R. Gerard has started a series
of strafing attacks on King Tigers. In the foreground a Königstiger
of the 503rd Heavy Tank Battalion is moving at full speed in
an attempt to flee the P 51's and to elude the threat of P 47
Thunderbolt fighter bombers, which the Mustangs would have called
in as a special anti-tank force.
Signed by four P-51 pilots of the 8th Air Force and three members
of the German King Tiger tank corps.
Maj. Gen. Francis R. Gerard - Col. Rex L. Poutre
Col. Lawrence J. Powell - 1st Lt. Robert V. Blizzard.
Col. Günter Piepgras - Lt.Col. Alfred Rubbel - Sgt. Franz-Wilhelm
Lochmann. |