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Died : 2009

General Adams was born in 1917 in Eagle Pass, Texas. He completed high school in Corpus Christi, Texas, in 1934 and entered the U.S. Military Academy in 1935. He graduated in 1939, and was assigned to Kelly Field, Texas, where he received his pilot wings in 1940. Adams served with the 22nd Pursuit Squadron at Langley Field, Va., Puerto Rico and Trinidad from 1940 to 1943. After a short tour as commander of the 328th Fighter Group at Hamilton Field, California, in October 1943 Adams went to the Southwest Pacific where he commanded the 18th Fighter Group until July 1945 when he returned to the United States. Milton Adams had flown a total of 275 combat missions. Eighteen months later he was assigned to Tehran, Iran, as advisor to the Imperial Iranian Air Force. In 1950 General Adams graduated from the Air War College. After a brief tour with the Air Tactical School, he served successively as faculty member of the Air War College; director of the Squadron Officer Course and director of the Field Officer Course of the Air University. General Adams became chief of staff, Headquarters Pacific Air Forces in July 1968 and retired on August 1st 1972. Sadly General Adams passed away on the 15th of May 2009

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Moonlighting by Stan Stokes.


Moonlighting by Stan Stokes.

Stan Stokes painting depicts a P-38 mission flown by 10 Fighter Group pilots Milton B. Adams, Joe Gunder, and Bill Harris in early February 1945. The 18th Fighter Group, part of the Thirteenth Air Force, moved its base of operations to Lingayen Gulf from Mindoro in early 1945. The group participated in numerous daylight strafing missions of Japanese targets on Northern Luzon. The missions were largely very successful and the Japanese had a high chance of getting hit hard by the 18 h whenever they attempted to move men or supplies. In response to the punishment being inflicted by these missions, the Japanese switched to nighttime truck convoys. Typically accompanied by numerous trucks with either 50 caliber or 20min quad machineguns, the nighttime convoys became the principal means for moving both arms and supplies south. Although the P-38 Lightnings flown by the group were not equipped for night fighting, and the pilots lacked any training for such missions, the pilots felt that under.........

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Item Code : STK0033Moonlighting by Stan Stokes. - Editions Available
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Adams, Milton B

Died : 2009
Major General Milton B Adams (deceased)
General Adams was born in 1917 in Eagle Pass, Texas. He completed high school in Corpus Christi, Texas, in 1934 and entered the U.S. Military Academy in 1935. He graduated in 1939, and was assigned to Kelly Field, Texas, where he received his pilot wings in 1940. Adams served with the 22nd Pursuit Squadron at Langley Field, Va., Puerto Rico and Trinidad from 1940 to 1943. After a short tour as commander of the 328th Fighter Group at Hamilton Field, California, in October 1943 Adams went to t
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Lieutenant Colonel Bill Harris
Before joining the Army Air Force, Bill Harris had served in the US Navy for 4 years he got his flying wings and on 30th October 1942 was commissioned as a second lieutenant at Luke Field, Arizona and assigned to the 339th Fighter Squadron, 347th Fighter Group. Flying a P-38G, Harris scored his first victory on 7th June 1943 by destroying two Zeros over the Russells. On the 16th Harris shot down two Zeros over Guadalcanal during a noontime attack by the Japanese. On 4th October he claimed a Z
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+ Artist : Stan Stokes		£250.00

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