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. |