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Cranston Fine Arts  Aviation Art World War Two Veteran Signatures United States C  Cannon, Joseph |
[UP] - Canning, Doug - Cannon, Joseph - Cannon, Michael - Carl, James - Carl, Marion - Carson, Leonard - Caswell, Dean - Cavit, Charles - Cavoli, William - Cervantes, Henry - Chevalier, Frederick - Childress, Hubert - Christie, Bill - Cinibulk, Robert - Clark, John - Clemons, Clark - Clingan, Wilbur - Clouthier, Leo - Coberly, Jat - Coe, Jerome - Coen, Oscar - Cole, Richard - Coleman, Wayne - Collinsworth, J - Compton, Keith - Comstock, Harold - Conant, A - Conlin, Raymond - Conte, Ralph - Cormier, Richard - Creel, L - Crockett, John - Crosby, John - Crowe, Steve - Cummings, Donald - Cunningham, Dan - Curry, James - Curtis, Bob - Cutler, Ed |
Lieutenant Joseph W Cannon
He enlisted in the USAAF in 1942 and after completing training joined the 363rd Fighter Squadron, 357th Fightr Group based at Leiston, flying P-51s alongside such legendary aces as Bud Anderson and Chuck Yeager. From September 1944 he flew 303 combat hours in 72 missions over Europe in his Mustang Little Joe, twice force-landed in Belgium in October 1944 and damaged two aircraft in the air, including an Me262 jet over Leipzig in March 1945.
| Lieutenant Joseph W Cannon - Signed Aviation Art |
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Looking for Trouble by Robert Taylor. When Hitler invaded Poland the British found themselves at war - and isolated. Desperate for new fighters and with production at full capacity they turned to the US aircraft manufacturer North American Aviation who were convinced they had the answer for Britain's needs - but it was still on the drawing board. They were, however, sure they could meet the deadline and incredibly, within the space of just four months the company had their brand new machine in the air. The Mustang was a triumph - conceived and born in a shorter period than any other significant aircraft in history and testament to its designer Edgar Schmued, and the people who built it. Delivered to the RAF in October 1941, it was fast, manoeuvrable, hard-hitting and, by the time it was combined with the legendary Rolls-Royce Merlin engine, was capable of outperforming anything the enemy could throw at it. With the arrival of the long-range fighter the heavy bombers of the USAAF could now be escorted all the way to the German capital and back so whilst the RAF pounded Berlin at night, the Mighty Eighth would do the same by day. When P-51s first appeared in the skies over Berlin, Hermann Goering was reported to have announced that he knew then the war was lost. Like the Spitfire, a special new breed of men flew the Mustang as the Allies pushed for victory in Europe. Tough, supremely confident, determined, and gloriously brave; it was an era that belonged to them and the P-51 helped produce some of the greatest aces of the war. Such iconic pilots as George Preddy, John Meyer, Don Blakeslee, Kit Carson and Bud Anderson scored all or most of their victories in this thoroughbred fighter. In fact, the Mustang was responsible for more US victories than any other fighter of the war. In this painting, P-51Ds of the 352nd Fighter Group with full long-range tanks slung under their wings, head out from their forward base in Belgium on an extended sweep east of the Rhine crossing on the lookout for enemy aircraft, in the spring of 1945. |
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