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P-51B-10-NA, s/n 43-6688, 1Lt. Arval J. Roberson, 362
nd
FS, 357
th
FG, 8
th
AF,
Leiston, United Kingdom, June 1944
P-51B-10-NA, s/n 42-106647, Capt. John R. Brown Jr., 382
nd
FS, 363
rd
FG, 9
th
AF,
Staplehurst, United Kingdom, June 1944
“Robby” Robertson joined the ranks of the Army
Reserves in June 1942 and was officially an
Army pilot on May 20, 1943. He was assigned to
the 362
nd
FS, with which he subsequently flew
76 missions. In all, he scored six confirmed
victories over German fighters, with another
remaining unconfirmed. During the Korean War,
he credited himself with another 100 combat
missions as a member of the 12
th
FBS/18
th
FBG. Already at the rank of Lieutenant Colonel,
he added 26 more missions with the C-47.
Robertson retired in 1973 as the last commander
of Otis Air Force Base before its closure. His
P-51B Mustang, serial number 43-6688, was the
first of two aircraft named the Passion Wagon
(the other was P-51D 44-13691), and Robertson
achieved all of his kills with it.
Prior to the combat, John Brown had managed
to destroy four aircraft and damage one in
various accidents, so he claimed himself to
be only three-fifths of an aircraft away from
becoming a Luftwaffe ace. He flew successively
in the 356 FG and 362 FG, both with P-47s, then
briefly became commander of the 382
nd
FS/363
FG, flying the P-51B. He was shot down with
his “Big Mac” on August 8, 1944, while leading a
formation of eight P-51s in an attack on ships in
Bedonet Harbor. It was his 99
th
mission. He made
an emergency landing near Quimper after being
hit by flak from a destroyer but managed to
escape capture and slip back to the Allies within
a week. He subsequently became commander
of the 437
th
FS/414 FG, with which he moved
to Guam, where he flew P-47Ns. After the war,
he became an air attaché in Afghanistan and
Pakistan and completed a secret mission in the
USSR. During his wartime career, he scored one
aerial kill, destroyed four enemy aircraft on the
ground, and damaged eight.
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