Met a WWII Fighter Pilot tonight ***UPDATE

Your artwork is a great tribute. Reading up on the P47 is a real eye-opener. The heaviest single piston-engine fighter plane, about twice as heavy as it's predecessor. Imagine being 22 years old--you are a crew of one- and being sent on a mission to bomb a railroad tunnel or whatever, being stalked and attacked by German fighters, belly-landing your damaged plane, and walking away with minor injuries. Then continuing to fly mission after mission.