Tribute to Robert S Johnson by Ivan Berryman. [Postcard]

Aircraft Depicted: P-47 Thunderbolt [other products featuring this aircraft]

Artist: Ivan Berryman [browse all Ivan Berryman]

American fighter Ace Robert S Johnson is depicted in his 56th Fighter Group P-47 Thunderbolt with codes HV-P named 'Lucky'. Of his 27 victories during a tour of 89 combat missions from April 1943 to May 1944, he scored 21 in this aircraft. The joint sixth top-scoring American Ace of WW2, he was notably the first US pilot in the European theater to better the historic WW1 victory total of Eddie Rickenbacker, the top-scoring American Ace of that war. Post-war, he became a test-pilot and retired in 1962. He died in 1998.

Postcard size 6 inches x 4 inches (15cm x 10cm)