An American ace pilot in Tunisia, 1943, with swastikas showing how many enemy planes he had shot down
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An American ace pilot in Tunisia, 1943, with swastikas showing how many enemy planes he had shot down
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And fascias for italian ones I presume
Did he take out a fence too?
Damn, that glare.
My former next door neighbor had a similar picture of himself on the card he used to hand out. Had about a dozen such symbols.
…also downed a Monster energy drink
One of those ANTIFA 😲
Who’s the pilot
The fence looking insignia is Italian I believe. If you look closely it’s the Roman torch but three of them side by side.
Back when Americans killed nazis and didn’t support them
Double ace, looks like
This is an acceptable use of the swastika.
The pilot is Levi R. Chase, who later became Major General
9 Luftwaffe aircraft, and one picket fence.
Seeing those AI up scaled WW2 fighter pilot shorts and seeing this is crazy to put together.
Hope this man survived the war.
Stone cold aerial assassin.
He looks ready to do 10 more.
Like “How many more Nazis I gotta kill before I can go home? “
What’s the 3 in a line mean?
The only good reason to put a swastika on your plane.
🫡
Looks like he’s flying a P-40 in this picture.
Baller shit
This is Levi R. Chase; he would have been 25-26 in 1943. He was a double ace in WWII, and flew a total of 512 combat missions in WWII, Korea, and Vietnam.
That’s what those guys did in their twenties. After growing up in the Great Depression.
I like being part of the America that kills nazis.
His business was killing nazis and business was booming.
Curtis P-40 Warhawk.
The last two swastikas seem to be of a different shade than the first 7; does that signify anything?
The only time to justify having swatsikas on something.
Get some
Bro was on a kill streak
Appears to be a P-40, for those who like old planes.
Shooting down Nazis is indeed very cool
9 Nazis and a can of Monster Energy
he took down a radiator?
This use to be common practice, displaying enemy insignia on your plane to show you had shot them down.
Some say this is the reason Porsche and Ferrari have a very similar dancing horse on their logos. Porsche took the horse from the Stuttgart Coat of Arms, and Ferrari took the horse from a flying ace from WWI named Francesco Baracca who displayed the horse on his plane, possibly to show he had shot down a pilot from Stuttgart!
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