Military Aviation Art
Flying
out of Wels in Austria, II/ZG 1, the Wasp Wing
as it was known, was a veteran Luftwaffe unit of the Eastern front
and the only surviving unit operational on the Me110. When in June 1944
Wasps participated in the attack against U.S. bombers headed for the city
of Budapest, it was the last time the Me110 was flown into battle in
daylight. Here P-47's of the famous Checkertails on escort duty, suddenly
and ferociously attack two Me 11O's of the Wasps. Each print has been
signed personally by the last three surviving Knight's Cross recipients of
II/ZG 1, and countersigned
by three of the most highly decorated combat veterans of the
United States Army Air Force 325th Fighter Group.
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