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Cranston Fine Arts  Aviation Art World War Two Veteran Signatures United States L  Lutz, Samuel |
[UP] - Laird, Dean - Lamar, Hi - Lamb, Huie - LaMond, Charles - Landry, Robert - Lane, Charles - Lawley, William - Layher, Robert - Leighton, Charles - LeMay, Curtis - Lewis, Robert - Litsinger, D - Loberg, Edwin - Loch, Harold - Loisel, John - Long, Maurice - Lopez, Don - Lopez, Edward - Losch, Fred - Losonsky, Frank - Loving, George - Lowell, John - Lucas, Jack - Lucas, William - Luckadoo, John - Lundy, C - Lutz, Samuel |
First Lieutenant Samuel Buzzard Lutz
Joining the service in December 1942, Samuel Lutz flew his first combat mission with the 365th Fighter Group in October 1944, strafing targets in the Rhineland. A few days later he almost forced to ditch after an ammunition dump he was strafing exploded. Later that year he was involved in heavy combat throughout the Battle of the Bulge. When he left the Air Force at the end of the war, he had flown 73 combat missions, all in the P-47.
| First Lieutenant Samuel Buzzard Lutz - Signed Aviation Art |
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Bridge Busters by Anthony Saunders. With orders to destroy, delay or disrupt enemy forces en-route to the Normandy battle area, P-47 Thunderbolts from the 78th Fighter Group launch a blistering high-speed, low-level attack, on a German freight train in occupied northern France, June 1944. Desperately attempting to transport vital supplies to the front by daylight, it has fallen prey to the cannons and bombs of the eagle eyed Thunderbolt pilots. |
Days of Thunder by Richard Taylor. Duxford became home to the 78th Fighter Group when they arrived in England with their P-47B Thunderbolts in 1943. The objective of the American fighter units was to gain air superiority over the Luftwaffe in support of their daylight bombing campaign. By 1944 they achieved their objective. Richard Taylor commemorates the valiant contribution of the 78th Fighter Group with a fine new rendition showing P-47D Thunderbolts departing Duxford en route for the north coast of France, and a low-level strafing mission. It is the spring of 1944, and with the Normandy invasion just days away, the Thunderbolts are already painted with invasion markings. |
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