Military Aviation Art
Led
by Colonel Hub Zemke, the 56th Fighter Group played advance
guard to a deep penetration bomber raid to central Germany. As his forty
eight P-47 Thunderbolts arrived to sweep the sky around the Koblenz
–Frankfurt area, the Me109s of II./JG11 pounced from a 5000 feet height
advantage.
Simon Atack’s high-impact painting shows Major Günther Rall bringing
down Hub Zemke’s wingman, the first of two victories he
claimed before himself being brought down by 56th Fighter Group
P-47s later in the combat. Günther Rall returned to combat flying,
commanding JG300 until the end of hostilities by which time, with 275 air
victories, he became the third highest scoring Ace in history.
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