Recreating P-51B Shillelagh
Forty-five miles west of Paris, France near Dreux, 1st Lt. Kenneth Dahlberg and seven other pilots from the 353rd Fighter Squadron bounced a formation of 20 Me-109s on August 16, 1944. Diving from 14,000 feet, they tore into the German fighters just before 5 pm local. Almost immediately, 60 more 109s joined the fray. Dahlberg, flying a P-51B named “Shillelagh” by its regular pilot, 1st Lt. David O’Hara, was too busy to recognize the odds....
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