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Jim Brooks | Captain Jim Brooks Jim Brooks joined the 31st Fighter Group in Italy in early 1944, flying the P51 against Me109s, Fw190s, and the Italian Macchi Mc202. He scored his first victory on a mission to Ploesti. Later, leading the 307th Fighter Squadron on a Russian shuttle mission, they engaged a large formation of Ju87 Stukas, shooting down 27 enemy aircraft, Jim Brooks accounting for three of them. He ended his tour with 280 combat hours, and 13 confirmed victories. |
Items Signed by Captain Jim Brooks |
  | Clipped Signature - Jim Brooks. Price : £45.00 | Flew P-51 Mustangs with the 31st Fighter Group, claiming a total of 13 confirmed victories in 280 combat hours. He flew in the Korean war and later became a test pilot. ...... | |
  | Dogfight over Asch, Belgium, 09.20 a.m., New Years Day, 1st January 1945 by David Pentland. (C) Price : £600.00 | As the four P51D Mustangs of Major William T Haltons Yellow Flight, 487th Fighter Squadron took off from Asch, they found themselves in the middle of a massive German attack. That New Years Day the Luftwaffe had launched hundreds of aircraft in low ...... | |
  | Last One Home by Ivan Berryman. (D) Price : £250.00 | A pair of P51D Mustangs of the 361st Fighter Group, 8th Air Force, escort a damaged B17G Flying Fortress of the 381st Bomb Group back to its home base of Ridgewell, England, during the Autumn of 1944. ...... | |
  | Running the Gauntlet by Robert Taylor. (D) SOLD OUT | Though some 1400 of Germanys remarkable Me262 jet aircraft were built, fewer than 300 ever saw action during its short 10 month combat career, the 550 mph fighter-bomber arriving in service too late to make any impression on the course of the war. ...... | NOT AVAILABLE |
| | Running the Gauntlet by Robert Taylor. (E) SOLD OUT | Though some 1400 of Germanys remarkable Me262 jet aircraft were built, fewer than 300 ever saw action during its short 10 month combat career, the 550 mph fighter-bomber arriving in service too late to make any impression on the course of the war. ...... | NOT AVAILABLE |
  | Opening Sky by Robert Taylor. (AP) Price : £650.00 | With the morning sun glinting on their fuselages, P-51 Mustangs of the 78th Fighter Group cross the Dutch coastline far below, as they head back towards their base at Duxford, England at the end of a long sweep east of the Rhine crossing, Spring 194...... | |
  | Mustangs Over the Mediterranean by Nicolas Trudgian. Price : £150.00 | Mustangs of the 31st Fighter Group pass low over an Italian fishing village, heading out on another combat patrol....... | |
| | Mustangs Over the Mediterranean by Nicolas Trudgian (AP) Price : £200.00 | Mustangs of the 31st Fighter Group pass low over an Italian fishing village, heading out on another combat patrol....... | |
| | Mustangs Over the Mediterranean by Nicolas Trudgian. (B) Price : £170.00 | Mustangs of the 31st Fighter Group pass low over an Italian fishing village, heading out on another combat patrol. ...... | |
| | Mustangs Over the Mediterranean by Nicolas Trudgian. (XX) SOLD OUT | Mustangs of the 31st Fighter Group pass low over an Italian fishing village, heading out on another combat patrol. ...... | NOT AVAILABLE |
| | Mustangs Over the Mediterranean by Nicolas Trudgian. (Y) Price : £130.00 | Mustangs of the 31st Fighter Group pass low over an Italian fishing village, heading out on another combat patrol. ...... | |
  | Top Cover by Gerald Coulson (AP) Price : £290.00 | Big Brothers and Little Friends : the enduring bond between the bomber crews and fighter pilots of the USAAF Eighth Air Force in their prolonged and hotly contested air war against Hitlers Nazi Germany, 1942-1945. ...... | |
| | Top Cover by Gerald Coulson (B) Price : £275.00 | Big Brothers and Little Friends : the enduring bond between the bomber crews and fighter pilots of the USAAF Eighth Air Force in their prolonged and hotly contested air war against Hitlers Nazi Germany, 1942-1945. ...... | |
| | Top Cover by Gerald Coulson (C) Price : £410.00 | Big Brothers and Little Friends : the enduring bond between the bomber crews and fighter pilots of the USAAF Eighth Air Force in their prolonged and hotly contested air war against Hitlers Nazi Germany, 1942-1945. ...... | |
| | Top Cover by Gerald Coulson (D) SOLD OUT | Big Brothers and Little Friends : the enduring bond between the bomber crews and fighter pilots of the USAAF Eighth Air Force in their prolonged and hotly contested air war against Hitlers Nazi Germany, 1942-1945. ...... | NOT AVAILABLE |
  | P-51 Mustang by Nicolas Trudgian. (APH) Price : £60.00 | Part of a small print series of six American WW2 aircraft, signed by some of the great American pilots, some no longer with us. Cranston Fine Arts have purchased the last remaining stocks of this aviation series....... | |
| | P-51 Mustang by Nicolas Trudgian. (H) Price : £60.00 | Part of a small print series of six American WW2 aircraft, signed by some of the great American pilots, some no longer with us. Cranston Fine Arts have purchased the last remaining stocks of this aviation series....... | |
  | Teamwork by Nicolas Trudgian. Price : £135.00 | P-51 Mustangs of the 20th Fighter Group make a low pass over B-17s of the 401st Bomb Group at Deenethorpe, as they return to their base at Kingscliffe in late 1944. ...... |
