Hobby Master 1/48 Air Power Series HA8451 P-47D Razorback 42-76179, Lt. Frank Klibbe, 56th FG, 61st FS USAAF, Halesworth, UK, March 1944.
The 56th FG received their P-47s in June 1942 and
6 months later went to England. Over the next
two years the 56th FG became the 8th AF’s highest scoring air-to-air combat
group with 665.5
victories.
1st Lt. Frank Klibbe, with the 61st FS accumulated 7 victories with
the final two coming on
May 8, 1944. Klibbe flew 63 missions and was assigned three different P-47s
with two of them wearing
the nose art “Little Chief”. 42-76179 was his third P-47 and used to score four
of his seven victories.
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