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Since you don't finish your sentence I would like to know if the second pilot was Col Benjamin Mayo? He is known to have flown another 'No Guts-No Glory', a P-47D 42-26671 also coded MX-X. Oberhansley used a lot of Bolts named Iron Ass Stig

Stig Jarlevik Republic P-47D-28-RE Thunderbolt 'Iron Ass/No Guts-No Glory', 44-19566. 82nd Fighter Squadron, 78th Fighter Group, 8th Air Force. This plane had two different assigned pilots and two different names while serving with the 78th....both of them big brass. Lt. Col. Jack J. Oberhansley was the C.O. of the 82nd Fighter Squadron and named the plane "Iron Ass". Col. Benjamin I. Mayo was the 78th Fighter Group's C.O. and named the plane "No Guts - No Glory".

SDASM Archives Thanks for the confirmation! Stig

From a book review of "The Flying Greek": "Col Pisanos recounts his combat record, from fighter sweeps and bomber escort missions to dogfighting, flying the Spitfire, the P-47, and the P-51. While flying a P-47 named Miss Plainfield, he scored his first aerial victory on May 21, 1943. By January 1, 1944, he had become an ace. After his tenth confirmed kill, he crash-landed his P-51 in France and spent six months with the French Resistance, successfully evading capture. Because of his exposure to the French operations, the Air Force could not risk his capture again, so he returned to the U.S. and became a test pilot at Wright Field where he also attended the Air Forceʼs test pilot school. Retired in December 1973."

This is fighter pilot Donald K. Dilling (3 aerial victories) standing next to his Republic P-47D Thunderbolt, USAAF Ser. No. 42-8447, code "HO-S", named "Queen City Mama." Contrary to the notation, Dilling was not actually "shot down over Paris," but became lost in the fog during a mission over France on December 30, 1943, during which he ran out of fuel and was forced to make a gear up landing in northern France. Dilling would abandon the aircraft in occupied territory, reportedly placing a grenade in the cockpit which failed to explode. While Dilling would escape capture and make his way back to Bodney from France through Spain, "Queen City Mama" would be recovered and repaired by the Germans, and evaluated by the Luftwaffe while wearing Luftwaffe markings (possibly as T9+FK). See book: 352nd Fighter Group, by Thomas G. Ivie (published 2002, Osprey Publishing)