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Trudgian, Nicolas
Checker-Tailed Clan, The
There was no mistaking the 325th Fighter Group. Their reputation preceded them, the brightly colored checkerboard tails of their P-51 Mustangs signaling a calling card most Luftwaffe pilots hated to see. By May 1944, based in Italy, the 325th were escorting the heavy bombing missions deep into Rumania, France, Germany and Austria.
Escorting B-24's to bomb the airfield at Markersdorf in Austria, August 1944, the 325th tangled with a group of Fw190 fighters, and the scene of Nicolas Trudgian's latest painting. The ensuing dogfight spiraled down below the mountain peaks as Herky Green led the Checkertails in a high-speed, low-level chase through a spectacular Austrian mountain pass.
Herky nails one Fw190. Behind him his P51 pilots will take out the two Fw190s off his starboard wing. When all is done this day the 325th will be credited with 15 enemy fighters destroyed.
This print is individually autographed by:
Major ROBERT M. BARKEY
Colonel ARTHUR C. FIEDLER
Major HERKY GREEN
Print size: 27 "w X 19"h
Limited edition of: 600 signed and numbered with 60 Artist Proofs
