Red Tail Escort by Richard Taylor. (C) REG51 the sky was theirs

the sky was theirs

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Unteroffizier Rudolf Miese (deceased)

Albatros DIII of Godwin Brumowski about to shoot down a Caquot balloon

Red Tail Escort by Richard Taylor. (C) REG51 the sky was theirsDHM2703C. Red Tail Escort by Richard Taylor. With the words of his Group CO ringing in his ears, a pilot of the 332nd Fighter Group returns to protect a crippled American B17 bomber after downing two Me109s in quick succession. Agonisingly, two more enemy fighters were left to escape but the pilot knew that under the strict leadership of Colonel Benjamin O Davis, his mission, and that if the other all black pilots of the 332nd, was solely to protect