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1943 11 03 Mediterranean Mosquito - Darryl Legg
flying at dusk, a 23 Sqdn Mosquito VI flies low along the Malta coastline
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1943 11 03 Mediterranean Mosquito - Darryl Legg
flying at dusk, a 23 Sqdn Mosquito VI flies low along the Malta coastline
1918 03 Pfalz DIII Jasta 18 vs SPAD XIII Maurice Boyau - Darryl Legg
1952 08 Sabre vs MiG dogfight - Darryl Legg
F-86 Sabre FU-834 Jolley Roger the mount of Korean war ace Captain Clifford D. Jolley. He was to score seven Korean War victories, flying with the 335th Fighter-Interceptor Sqn, part of the 4th Fighter-Interceptor Wing. e 18th jet ace of the Korean War, and the first Air National Guard "ace" of the war from the (Utah Air National Guard).Captain Jolley shot down seven Soviet-made MiG-15 aircraft, earning his ace status.He joined the USAAF in 1941. Jolley learned to fly in 1942. He flew P-40s and P-38s with the 18th Fighter Squadron, 343rd Fighter Group, 11th Air Force in the Aleutians. He shot down 3 enemy planes during WWII.He first began flying P-51 Mustangs with the California Air Guard in San Bernardino in 1947.He transitioned to jets in 1948 at Williams Air Force Base, Ariz., and joined the Utah Air National Guard in 1949.During 1951, he toured the country with his Guard unit, putting on firepower demonstrations. Late that year, he attended Jet Gunnery School at Nellis AFB in Las Vegas. He and many Guardsmen were activated from the Utah unit and assigned to a regular Air Force unit in Korea in 1952.Jolley flew with the 335th Fighter Interceptor Squadron, "The Chiefs," of the 4th Fighter Interceptor Group from Kimpo Air Base, South Korea. The squadron flew four kinds of missions in Korea: MiG sweeps, cover flights for bombers, cover flights for photo recon planes, and weather searches.He was shot down over Cho-Do by a MiG-15 on 2 July 1952, managed to eject. He was briefly captured, and subsequently rescued by the crew of an H-5 of the 3rd Air Rescue Service.While flying his F-86E (#51-2769), he downed his first MiG on his 31st birthday, the second on the Fourth of July, the third and fourth on August 7, the fifth on August 8 (becoming the 18th jet ace of the Korean War), and the 6th and 7th later that month. He is credited with having at least 13 probables.
1943 09 New Guinea. Nazdab airfield P-38G Lightning 90 FS 'Jungle Queen' - Darryl Legg
1943 07 Grumman Goose - Darryl Legg
1942 12 01 Breakthrough Victory - Darryl Legg
Fl. Lt Alan M Peart DFC, 81 Squadron RAF, flying his Spitfire Mk.Vc, FL-D, over Bone Harbour, Algeria December 1st 1942.Alan followed a SM-84 into the clouds until it drifted into view where Alan promptly shot it down thus claiming the first of his six aerial victories
1943 12 Ten knights in a bar room - Darryl Legg
In this dramatic scene, a badly damaged B-24D Liberator over Wewak in the South Pacific, is captured moments before its end, with the loss of all crew. December 1943.
1943 12 26 Victory over Burma - Darryl Legg
On Boxing Day, 1943, Bob Cross flying a Spitfire Mk Vc (MA388) of 136 Sqdn, claims one of two Ki-43's for the day. Cpl Yanagi flying a 3rd Chutai/204 Sentai Ki-43II, went down, possibly near Pekon Lake, Burma.