The Battle of Fontenoy by Felix Philippoteaux. SIG173

The Battle of Fontenoy by Felix Philippoteaux. SIG173DHM074. The Battle of Fontenoy by Felix Philippoteaux. The Duke of Cumberland, their colonel, commanding the allied forces; measured his strength with Marshal Saxe, who was then besieging Tournay. The First Guards were on the right of the centre, in the first line, when the Duke, furious at the failure on both wings, ordered the masses of troops to attack. The infantry dashed forward between the village and the redoubt, and as the British Guards

under the stewardship of the more experienced Raymond Collishaw - who became the second highest scoring Candian Ace of the war - he flew his early missions with No

being involved in the hunt for - and ultimate sinking of - Scharnhorst in 1943

Klaus Scholtz (deceased)

saw the most decisive and continual aerial fighting in history

The B-17s were an important addition to the woefully inadequate and obsolete air forces which America had in the Philippines

By mid-1944 the Group was receiving P-47s

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shortly after receiving the news of the attack on Pearl Harbor

flying 68 of his 209 combat missions in the jet

and under Air Wing Commander James Stockdale

Peters was awarded the DFC

heads out on another night of operations in August 1943