Wolfpack Warrior – A New Pilot Learns from 56th FG Pros

The 56th Fighter Group flew “Jugs” through the entire war and set the record for fighter units in the European Theater of Operations. (Photo by John Dibbs/planepicture.com)

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I graduated from flight training on the 8th of February 1944 at Camp Eagle Pass, Texas. After 10 hours of fighter transition training in the P-40, I was transferred to a field at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where I came face to face with the P-47 Thunderbolt. I’d been flying the little T-6 Texan and the P-40, both small aircraft compared to the P-47. It was a huge machine. Lt. Russ Kyler...

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