A new signing has potentially come to my attention---turns out this gentleman lives about an hour from where I am going to be in Detroit for the Great Lakes show in 2 weeks. I'll update this further when I return from Dallas, as I hammer out the details.
I can provide books, or those of you who took part in last year's op can send in your books to crack and add sigs.
Here's who we have on deck!
Lt. Col. Alexander Jefferson was assigned to the 332rd "Red Tail" Fighter group at the Ramitelli Airfield near Foggia, Italy, flying the P-51 Mustang. Assigned to a fighter escort wing protecting bombing missions of the US 15th Air Force, his job was to attack key ground targets and guard the bombing mission against enemy Nazi Luftwaffe fighters.
During his 19th mission over Toulon, southern Franceon August 12, 1944, while attacking a radar installation he was shot down.[3] Parachuting to safety and landing within a forest, he was immediately captured by Nazi ground troops. He was sent to prisoner of war camp Stalag Luft III in Poland, a specialist Luftwaffe-run camp for captured Allied Air Force personnel. During his period of internment, Jefferson comments that he was treated like any other Air Force officer by his German captors.[2] He was then moved to Stalag VII-A, just outside Dachau. After the Russian Army entered Poland, the prisoners were marched to Munich by the Germans, where they were freed by General George Patton's US Third Army.[2] Jefferson returned to the United States on board the Cunard liner RMS Queen Mary, arriving inNew York city in mid-1945:
He also authored a book 9407809699938174357332
Red Tail Captured, Red Tail Free: Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman and POW
INVOICES
Ron C. Inv. 2045
Dreaming Eagles #1 CGC 9.8 s/s (Hoaknes variant) Lt. Col. Harry Stewart & Capt. Roscoe Brown - SHIPPED 9407809699938174357332
PhantomEwan Inv. 2046
Dreaming Eagles s/s w/Jefferson (customer supplied 2 bks)