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Cranston Fine Arts  Aviation Art and Artists World War Two Veteran Signatures United States J  Johnson, Robert |
[UP] - Jackfert, Edward - Jacobson, Julius - Jacquet, Edward - Janski, Edwin - Jefferson, Alexander - Jeffrey, Arthur - Jernstedt, Kenneth - Johnson, Harry - Johnson, Leon - Johnson, Oris - Johnson, Robert - Johnson, Wayne - Joiner, Joseph - Jones, David - Jones, Everett - Jones, Gordon - Julin, Don |
Lt Col Robert S Johnson
Robert Johnson arrived in England in 1943 and was quickly in the thick of the action, scoring his first aerial victory within a month of his initial combat flying. A year later, having flown 91 combat missions, he had taken his total of aerial victories to 27. Died 27th December 1998.
| Lt Col Robert S Johnson - Signed Aviation Art |
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Duxford Pair by Ivan Berryman. These Republic P-47D Thunderbolts were operational with the 82nd FS, 78th FG based at Duxford during the final months of the war in Europe. |
Opening Sky by Robert Taylor. 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 1945. The final months of the war in Europe lie ahead, and for the P-51 pilots victory is within sight. Finally, after years of toil, the sky was theirs. |
Zemke's First Fan by David Pentland. On the 12th of May 1944, Col. Hubert Zemke tried his new fan tactic, designed to engage Luftwaffe fighters. Unfortunately on this occasion his aircraft was bounced by German ace Major Gunther Rall in his ME109 G-6AS, and escaped only by sending his P47-D Thunderbolt into a gut wrenching dive. |
The Wolfpack by Robert Taylor. The 56th Fighter Group was led by some of Americas greatest fighter leaders of World War II and was home to many of its leading fighter Aces. Under successive commanders Hub Zemke, Robert Landry and David Schilling, the 56th destroyed more enemy aircraft in combat than any other fighter group in the Eighth Air Force. Arriving in England in January 1943 under the command of Colonel Hub Zemke, a master tactician and fearless leader, the 56th quickly emerged as an outstanding fighting unit. The only Eighth Air Force Group to fly P-47 Thunderbolts throughout the war, the 56th spawned more fighter Aces than any other USAAF group - legends such as Gabby Gabreski, Robert Johnson and the colourful Ace Walker Bud Mahurin. Under Hub Zemkes mercurial leadership they became known and feared as Zemkes Wolfpack. On 26 November, 1943, the P-47s of the 56th Fighter Group were tasked to escort B-24 Liberators of the 392nd Bomb Group on a dangerous mission to attack the heavily defended industrial and dockyard facilities in the German port of Bremen. Zemke knew the Luftwaffe would be waiting for them as they approached the target, and they were - in force! It was to become a day of high drama. With the Luftwaffe throwing all the fighters they could muster at the American heavy bombers, a massive aerial battle ensued. In the running dogfights high over Bremen, the Wolfpack claimed their most successful action of the war with 23 confirmed kills, 3 probables, and 9 damaged, creating an all-time record in the European Theatre. The 392nds B-24 Liberators could not have been in safer hands on that eventful day. |
Outward Bound by Robert Taylor. 78th FG Thunderbolts preparing to depart Duxford - with two visiting 361st FG Mustangs in the background while overhead other 361st FG Mustangs climb away from Bottisham. |
Zemkes Wolfpack by Robert Taylor. Hub Zemke was a fighter pilot and commander who led from the front. A great tactician too, it was in no small measure due to the air combat tactics introduced to the 56th Fighter Group by its mercurial leader that by the end of WW2 it had become the top-scoring Fighter Group in the USAF. This highly successful unit spawned some of the top fighter aces in the European theatre : Gabby Gabreski with 34.5 victories, Robert Johnson with 28 victories, and the colourful Ace, Walker Bud Mahurin who shot down 21 German aircraft. High over Germany at the extremity of its range, the P-47 of Hub Zemke is seen leading his pilots in to defend a stricken B-17 against the persistent attacks of marauding Fw190s. Already damaged, the B-17 has dropped from the relative safety of the formation, and protection from the P-47s is now its only chance of survival. |
| Lt Col Robert S Johnson Aircraft details |
 Thunderbolt Built : 15683 | Thunderbolt Alexander Kartveli was a engineer with Seversky Aircraft who designed the P-35, which first flew in 1937. With Republic Aviation Kartveli supervised the development of the P-43 Lancer. Neither of these aircraft were produced in large numbers, and neither was quite successful. However, the Republic Aviation P-47 Thunderbolt, also nicknamed the Jug, was quite a different story. The Jug was the jewel in Kartvelis design crown, and went on to become one of the most produced fighter aircraft of all time with 15,683 being manufactured. The P-47 was the largest and heaviest single seat fighter of WW II. The P-47 immediately demonstrated its excellent combat qualities, including speed, rate of climb, maneuverability, heavy fire power, and the ability to take a lot of punishment. With a wingspan of more than 40 feet and a weight of 19,400 pounds, this large aircraft was designed around the powerful 2000 HP Pratt and Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp radial engine. The first P-47 prototype flew in May of 1941, and the primary variant the P-47D went into service in 1943 with units of the U.S. Armys Eighth Air Force. The Jug had a maximum speed in excess of 400 MPH, a service ceiling in excess of 42,000 feet, and was heavily armed with either six or eight heavy caliber machine guns. With its ability to carry up to a 2,500 pound bomb load, the Jug saw lots of use in ground attack roles. Until the introduction of the N model, the P-47 lacked the long range required for fighter escort missions which were most often relegated to P-51 Mustangs or P-38 Lightnings. In his outstanding painting entitled Bridge Busting Jugs, noted aviation artist Stan Stokes depicts Eighth Air Force Jugs in a ground attack mission in the Alps in June of 1944. The top P-47 ace was Francis Gabreski who had flown with the 56th Fighter Group, the first unit to be equipped with the P-47. In August of 1943 Gabreski attained his first aerial combat victory (over an Fw-190) and by years end he had reached ace status with 8 confirmed victories. As Commander of the 61st Squadron, Gabreski continued to chalk up victory after victory, and on seven different occasions he achieved two victories during the same mission. However, in July of 1944 Gabreski damaged the prop on his Jug during a low level attack on an airfield near Coblenz. Forced to make a crash landing, he was captured and remained a prisoner of war until Wars end in 1945. Following the War Gabreski returned to military service with the Air Forces 4th Fighter-Interceptor Wing in Korea. Flying the F-86 Sabre Jet, Gabreski attained 6.5 more aerial victories in 1951 and 1952 becoming an ace in two different wars | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lt Col Robert S Johnson Squadron details |
56th Fighter Group Country : US | 56th Fighter Group | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
61st Fighter Squadron Country : US Known Codes : , HV, | 61st Fighter Squadron | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Known Victory Claims - Robert S Johnson | |||||||
DATE | PILOT | UNIT | JG | CLAIMED | LOCATION | TIME | FRONT |
| 13/06/1943 | Robert Johnson | 56th Fighter Group | 61st Fighter Squadron | Fw190 | Bergues, France | Western Front | |
| 19/08/1943 | Robert Johnson | 56th Fighter Group | 61st Fighter Squadron | Me109 | Woensdrecht, Netherlands | Western Front | |
| 08/10/1943 | Robert Johnson | 56th Fighter Group | 61st Fighter Squadron | Fw190 | Lingen, Germany | Western Front | |
| 10/10/1943 | Robert Johnson | 56th Fighter Group | 61st Fighter Squadron | Me110 | Munster, Germany | Western Front | |
| 10/10/1943 | Robert Johnson | 56th Fighter Group | 61st Fighter Squadron | Fw190 | Munster, Germany | Western Front | |
| 03/11/1943 | Robert Johnson | 56th Fighter Group | 61st Fighter Squadron | Me109 | Ameland, Netherlands | Western Front | |
| 22/12/1943 | Robert Johnson | 56th Fighter Group | 61st Fighter Squadron | Me109 | Almelo, Netherlands | Western Front | |
| 30/12/1943 | Robert Johnson | 56th Fighter Group | 61st Fighter Squadron | Fw190 | Soissons, France | Western Front | |
| 31/12/1943 | Robert Johnson | 56th Fighter Group | 61st Fighter Squadron | Fw190 | Savenay, France | Western Front | |
| 31/12/1943 | Robert Johnson | 56th Fighter Group | 61st Fighter Squadron | Fw190 | Savenay, France | Western Front | |
| 05/01/1944 | Robert Johnson | 56th Fighter Group | 61st Fighter Squadron | Fw190 | Koblenz, Germany | Western Front | |
| 21/01/1944 | Robert Johnson | 56th Fighter Group | 61st Fighter Squadron | Fw190 | Rouen, France | Western Front | |
| 30/01/1944 | Robert Johnson | 56th Fighter Group | 61st Fighter Squadron | Me410 | Lingen, Germany | Western Front | |
| 30/01/1944 | Robert Johnson | 56th Fighter Group | 61st Fighter Squadron | Me109 | Lingen, Germany | Western Front | |
| 20/02/1944 | Robert Johnson | 56th Fighter Group | 61st Fighter Squadron | Me110 | Dummer Lake, Germany | Western Front | |
| 20/02/1944 | Robert Johnson | 56th Fighter Group | 61st Fighter Squadron | Me110 | Dummer Lake, Germany | Western Front | |
| 06/03/1944 | Robert Johnson | 56th Fighter Group | 61st Fighter Squadron | Fw190 | Dummer Lake, Germany | Western Front | |
| 08/03/1944 | Robert Johnson | 56th Fighter Group | 61st Fighter Squadron | Me109 | Steinhude Lake, Germany | Western Front | |
| 08/03/1944 | Robert Johnson | 56th Fighter Group | 61st Fighter Squadron | Me109 | Steinhude Lake, Germany | Western Front | |
| 15/03/1944 | Robert Johnson | 56th Fighter Group | 61st Fighter Squadron | Fw190 | Dummer Lake, Germany | Western Front | |
| 15/03/1944 | Robert Johnson | 56th Fighter Group | 61st Fighter Squadron | Fw190 | Dummer Lake, Germany | Western Front | |
| 15/03/1944 | Robert Johnson | 56th Fighter Group | 61st Fighter Squadron | Me109 | Dummer Lake, Germany | Western Front | |
| 09/04/1944 | Robert Johnson | 56th Fighter Group | 61st Fighter Squadron | Fw190 | Kiel, Germany | Western Front | |
| 13/04/1944 | Robert Johnson | 56th Fighter Group | 61st Fighter Squadron | Fw190 | Kaiserslautern, Germany | Western Front | |
| 13/04/1944 | Robert Johnson | 56th Fighter Group | 61st Fighter Squadron | Fw190 | Kaiserslautern, Germany | Western Front | |
| 08/05/1944 | Robert Johnson | 56th Fighter Group | 62nd Fighter Squadron | Me109 | Celle, Germany | Western Front | |
| 08/05/1944 | Robert Johnson | 56th Fighter Group | 62nd Fighter Squadron | Fw190 | Celle, Germany | Western Front |
Known Claims : 27
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