The Yoxford Boys by Gerald Coulson [Print]

Artist : Gerald Coulson [view all Gerald Coulson]

Aircraft Depicted: P-51 Mustang [other products featuring this aircraft]

Open edition print.

The 357th Fighter Group was an air combat unit of the US army Air Force during the Second World War. The 357th operated P-51 Mustang fighter aircraft as part of the U.S. 8th Air Force and its members were known unofficially as the Yoxford Boys after the village of Yoxford near their base in the UK. Group tradition holds that the name was the invention of Lord Haw Haw in a broadcast greeting the night of its arrival at RAF Leiston. Its victory totals in air-to-air combat are the most of any P-51 group in the Eighth Air Force and third among all groups fighting in Europe.

Image size 28 inches x 14 inches (71cm x 36cm)