Miss Dallas T-Shirt

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This is an oil portrait of 4th Fighter Group pilot Vic "The Playboy" France and his "Miss Dallas" P-51B Mustang. A dashing and handsome young man, France was KIA in April 1944 after striking the ground while pursuing an enemy fighter at low level. At the time of his death, Vic was just shy of "making ace," with 4.33 official aerial victories. The fraction represents a shared kill.

Many years later, Don Allen, France's crew chief, received a call from a woman in England ... could he tell her anything about her father, 4th FG pilot Vic France?! Vic never knew the child, having died before she was born. The girl's mother never told her who her father was. Turns out, however, that the mother died young and the child was passed to her grandmother. The grandmother 'spilled the beans' and gave her Vic's name. It took many years for her to track down those who knew her father, including Allen, who took care of all of France's aircraft and would have strapped him in on that last day....

Wade Meyers spent his early years at Fort Bragg, North Carolina before his family moved to Bossier City, La. when he was ten years old. Fulfilling a dream, Wade soloed a Cessna 150 at age 17 and went on to earn his Commercial and Flight Instructor pilot certificates. After high school, he earned a B.A. in History from Louisiana State University in Shreveport while serving in the US Air Force Reserve at Barksdale Air Force Base. With marriage came a move to the beautiful Birmingham, Alabama area. Diving in head first, Wade quit his job at an aviation museum in 2003 and began to work full-time as an aviation artist. He started accepting commissions immediately, and to this day his work is primarily commission-driven. Along with his...

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