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A powerful secondary market print featuring P-47 Thunderbolts of the 56th Fighter Group – Zemke’s Wolfpack
ADVANCE INTO EUROPE
by Nicolas Trudgian
Artist Proof
Roaringlow over a recently liberated French village, Hub Zemke leads his P-47 pilotson a low-level strafing mission to the front lines. Below, American groundforces push on towards the battle front, to the exaltation of the localvillagers, enjoying their first taste of freedom since the fall of France fourlong years earlier.
Flying P-47 Thunderbolts throughouttheir time stationed in England, the Group, known as "the Wolfpack",had more ace pilots than any other Eighth Air Force Fighter Group. The 56thFighter Group also destroyed more enemy aircraft in air combat than any other.Francis Gabreski and Robert Johnson, the Eighth Air Force's top aces both flew withthe 56th.
THESIGNATURES
This stunning Artist Poof print is individuallysigned in pencil by the artist and four high scoring P-47 Aces – three of whomflew with the legendary ‘Zemke’s Wolfpack’
Colonel HUB ZEMKE –56th FG / 17¾victories
Colonel PAUL CONGER –56th FG / 11½victories
Major General DONALD STRAIT –356th FG/ 13½ victories
Colonel FRANCIS GABRESKI -56th FG / 34½victories
Released in 1994 to commemoratingthe 50th anniversary of D-Day, this highly detailed print has been sold out forsome years and is hand signed by legendary P-47 Aces, making it the perfect piecefor aviation art collectors and autograph hunters alike.
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