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Very very cool NAA.

Being totally non artistic, I have much respect for those that can paint like your dad or whoever did this rendition

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NAA said:
My Dad who is now 82, among other things, does aviation art. He personally knew Stigler and corresponded with Brown. He painted the flight where Brown's crippled B-17 was encountered by Stigler's ME-109. The details in his painting, including correct markings & battle damage, are recreated from info obtained directly from the participants:

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Single of Stigler's ME-109:

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Portait of Stigler:

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The portrait he gave to Stigler & it is now with his family.

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Very Very Very cool !!! :) I'm looking into purchasing a few painted pictures for the house ( aircraft of course :) ) I have a sweet spot for anything that will fly :)

Cheers
Joe
 
purple said:
I recently interviewed a former Halifax rear gunner, and later pilot, who survived a full tour of duty in 1943/44. While serving as a rear gunner his main effort was to watch for enemy night fighters and instruct the pilot when to take evasive action. He only fired his guns on one occasion after being engaged by an enemy fighter. Basically the idea was to avoid firing unless fired at because in doing so your tracer lit you up for any night fighter in the vicinity. He described his eyes aching from the effort to remain constantly vigilant throughout a night mission. His bomber went unscathed except for one time when it was hit by AA fire and he was wounded. He described the stress and fear levels as very high and remarked that he had watched a lot of young men grow old in a short period of time.
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I once read of a wireless operator in a Lancaster who seems to have snapped during a long night mission. He just got up and jumped out of the aircraft without a parachute.
 
Recce21 said:
Very very cool NAA.

Being totally non artistic, I have much respect for those that can paint like your dad or whoever did this rendition

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Apparently, it has been painted a number of different times by various artists. It's an amazing story, though.

Before his death Stigler, who resided in Surrey, B.C. in the later part of his life, was a consultant to the ME262 project in Everett, WA. Stigler was a test pilot on the original ME 262's in Germany near the end of the war.

I wish my Dad's artistic talent had rubbed off, but alas not so.... it did skip a generation though and all the grandkids have picked it up to varying degrees.

Here's a couple more pics of my Dad's paintings:

Spitfire:

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And this one I have dibs on..... a pair of P51 Mustangs.....

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Worked with a chap who flew the clipped wing (MK. XVI?) in late '44 through '45. They did mostly ground attack. He was in only one dog fight; long nosed FW 190s. He saw his tracer going behind one, couldn't turn fast enough to bring the FW into his fire. His wingman got it.
He told of one incident where movement was seen in a woodlot, so they shot it up. Secondary explosions. Apparently a German unit had sheltered there during daylight hours.
 
brownie said:
never saw spitfires like that, the have clipped wing tips and look like two seaters with that extra window behind the canopy.
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clipped wings gave faster top speed at a cost of turn rate (higher wing loading)
almost all standard spitfires have that canopy, the radio sits behind the pilot and the antenna is attached to that post

some later models had a mustang style canopy
 
Knew of a gent here who was a tail gunner and DFC winner. He had a reputation as being lucky, like his father who was a VC winner in WWI. He said once his CO offered him £100. to fly with him on his last mission. "He wanted get home to momma" was how he put it, which sort of surprised me. He declined, and his CO was shot down and killed on that last mission. Maybe they both had premonitions because £100. was a hell of a lot of money then. Mentioned circling Cologne cathedral at low altitude to mark it so that it was not bombed. Said the AA gunners seemed to know what they were doing as it seemed to him they were aiming to miss. He was working on his memoirs. I hope he finished them before he died. Can't see the Luftwaffe marking St. Paul's somehow, nor sparing a whole city for cultural reasons like the USAAF did Kyoto.

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purple said:
I recently interviewed a former Halifax rear gunner, and later pilot, who survived a full tour of duty in 1943/44. While serving as a rear gunner his main effort was to watch for enemy night fighters and instruct the pilot when to take evasive action. He only fired his guns on one occasion after being engaged by an enemy fighter. Basically the idea was to avoid firing unless fired at because in doing so your tracer lit you up for any night fighter in the vicinity. He described his eyes aching from the effort to remain constantly vigilant throughout a night mission. His bomber went unscathed except for one time when it was hit by AA fire and he was wounded. He described the stress and fear levels as very high and remarked that he had watched a lot of young men grow old in a short period of time.
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