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Lt Col Robert S Johnson (deceased)
Robert Johnson arrived in England in 1943 and was quickly in the thick of the action, scoring his first aerial victory within a month of his initial combat flying. A year later, having flown 91 combat missions, he had taken his total of aerial victories to 27. Died 27th December 1998.
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Items Signed by Lt Col Robert S Johnson (deceased) |
  | Opening Sky by Robert Taylor. (AP) Price : £650.00 | With the morning sun glinting on their fuselages, P-51 Mustangs of the 78th Fighter Group cross the Dutch coastline far below, as they head back towards their base at Duxford, England at the end of a long sweep east of the Rhine crossing, Spring 194...... | |
  | Outward Bound by Robert Taylor. SOLD OUT | 78th FG Thunderbolts preparing to depart Duxford - with two visiting 361st FG Mustangs in the background while overhead other 361st FG Mustangs climb away from Bottisham....... | NOT AVAILABLE |
  | Zemkes Wolfpack by Robert Taylor. SOLD OUT | Hub Zemke was a fighter pilot and commander who led from the front. A great tactician too, it was in no small measure due to the air combat tactics introduced to the 56th Fighter Group by its mercurial leader that by the end of WW2 it had become the...... | NOT AVAILABLE |
Packs with at least one item featuring the signature of Lt Col Robert S Johnson (deceased) |
| Squadrons for : Lt Col Robert S Johnson (deceased) | ||
| A list of all squadrons known to have been served with by Lt Col Robert S Johnson (deceased). A profile page is available by clicking the squadron name. | ||
| Squadron | Info | |
Country : US Click the name above to see prints featuring aircraft of 56th Fighter Group | 56th Fighter Group Full profile not yet available. | |
Country : US Click the name above to see prints featuring aircraft of 61st Fighter Squadron | 61st Fighter Squadron Full profile not yet available. | |
| Aircraft for : Lt Col Robert S Johnson (deceased) | |||
| A list of all aircraft associated with Lt Col Robert S Johnson (deceased). A profile page including a list of all art prints for the aircraft is available by clicking the aircraft name. | |||
| Squadron | Info | ||
Production Began : 1943 Number Built : 15683 | Thunderbolt Alexander Kartveli was a engineer with Seversky Aircraft who designed the P-35, which first flew in 1937. With Republic Aviation Kartveli supervised the development of the P-43 Lancer. Neither of these aircraft were produced in large numbers, and neither was quite successful. However, the Republic Aviation P-47 Thunderbolt, also nicknamed the Jug, was quite a different story. The Jug was the jewel in Kartvelis design crown, and went on to become one of the most produced fighter aircraft of all time with 15,683 being manufactured. The P-47 was the largest and heaviest single seat fighter of WW II. The P-47 immediately demonstrated its excellent combat qualities, including speed, rate of climb, maneuverability, heavy fire power, and the ability to take a lot of punishment. With a wingspan of more than 40 feet and a weight of 19,400 pounds, this large aircraft was designed around the powerful 2000 HP Pratt and Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp radial engine. The first P-47 prototype flew in May of 1941, and the primary variant the P-47D went into service in 1943 with units of the U.S. Armys Eighth Air Force. The Jug had a maximum speed in excess of 400 MPH, a service ceiling in excess of 42,000 feet, and was heavily armed with either six or eight heavy caliber machine guns. With its ability to carry up to a 2,500 pound bomb load, the Jug saw lots of use in ground attack roles. Until the introduction of the N model, the P-47 lacked the long range required for fighter escort missions which were most often relegated to P-51 Mustangs or P-38 Lightnings. In his outstanding painting entitled Bridge Busting Jugs, noted aviation artist Stan Stokes depicts Eighth Air Force Jugs in a ground attack mission in the Alps in June of 1944. The top P-47 ace was Francis Gabreski who had flown with the 56th Fighter Group, the first unit to be equipped with the P-47. In August of 1943 Gabreski attained his first aerial combat victory (over an Fw-190) and by years end he had reached ace status with 8 confirmed victories. As Commander of the 61st Squadron, Gabreski continued to chalk up victory after victory, and on seven different occasions he achieved two victories during the same mission. However, in July of 1944 Gabreski damaged the prop on his Jug during a low level attack on an airfield near Coblenz. Forced to make a crash landing, he was captured and remained a prisoner of war until Wars end in 1945. Following the War Gabreski returned to military service with the Air Forces 4th Fighter-Interceptor Wing in Korea. Flying the F-86 Sabre Jet, Gabreski attained 6.5 more aerial victories in 1951 and 1952 becoming an ace in two different wars | ||
Known Victory Claims - Robert S Johnson | |||||||
DATE | PILOT | UNIT | JG | CLAIMED | LOCATION | TIME | FRONT |
| 13/06/1943 | Robert Johnson | 56th Fighter Group | 61st Fighter Squadron | Fw190 | Bergues, France | Western Front | |
| 19/08/1943 | Robert Johnson | 56th Fighter Group | 61st Fighter Squadron | Me109 | Woensdrecht, Netherlands | Western Front | |
| 08/10/1943 | Robert Johnson | 56th Fighter Group | 61st Fighter Squadron | Fw190 | Lingen, Germany | Western Front | |
| 10/10/1943 | Robert Johnson | 56th Fighter Group | 61st Fighter Squadron | Me110 | Munster, Germany | Western Front | |
| 10/10/1943 | Robert Johnson | 56th Fighter Group | 61st Fighter Squadron | Fw190 | Munster, Germany | Western Front | |
| 03/11/1943 | Robert Johnson | 56th Fighter Group | 61st Fighter Squadron | Me109 | Ameland, Netherlands | Western Front | |
| 22/12/1943 | Robert Johnson | 56th Fighter Group | 61st Fighter Squadron | Me109 | Almelo, Netherlands | Western Front | |
| 30/12/1943 | Robert Johnson | 56th Fighter Group | 61st Fighter Squadron | Fw190 | Soissons, France | Western Front | |
| 31/12/1943 | Robert Johnson | 56th Fighter Group | 61st Fighter Squadron | Fw190 | Savenay, France | Western Front | |
| 31/12/1943 | Robert Johnson | 56th Fighter Group | 61st Fighter Squadron | Fw190 | Savenay, France | Western Front | |
| 05/01/1944 | Robert Johnson | 56th Fighter Group | 61st Fighter Squadron | Fw190 | Koblenz, Germany | Western Front | |
| 21/01/1944 | Robert Johnson | 56th Fighter Group | 61st Fighter Squadron | Fw190 | Rouen, France | Western Front | |
| 30/01/1944 | Robert Johnson | 56th Fighter Group | 61st Fighter Squadron | Me410 | Lingen, Germany | Western Front | |
| 30/01/1944 | Robert Johnson | 56th Fighter Group | 61st Fighter Squadron | Me109 | Lingen, Germany | Western Front | |
| 20/02/1944 | Robert Johnson | 56th Fighter Group | 61st Fighter Squadron | Me110 | Dummer Lake, Germany | Western Front | |
| 20/02/1944 | Robert Johnson | 56th Fighter Group | 61st Fighter Squadron | Me110 | Dummer Lake, Germany | Western Front | |
| 06/03/1944 | Robert Johnson | 56th Fighter Group | 61st Fighter Squadron | Fw190 | Dummer Lake, Germany | Western Front | |
| 08/03/1944 | Robert Johnson | 56th Fighter Group | 61st Fighter Squadron | Me109 | Steinhude Lake, Germany | Western Front | |
| 08/03/1944 | Robert Johnson | 56th Fighter Group | 61st Fighter Squadron | Me109 | Steinhude Lake, Germany | Western Front | |
| 15/03/1944 | Robert Johnson | 56th Fighter Group | 61st Fighter Squadron | Fw190 | Dummer Lake, Germany | Western Front | |
| 15/03/1944 | Robert Johnson | 56th Fighter Group | 61st Fighter Squadron | Fw190 | Dummer Lake, Germany | Western Front | |
| 15/03/1944 | Robert Johnson | 56th Fighter Group | 61st Fighter Squadron | Me109 | Dummer Lake, Germany | Western Front | |
| 09/04/1944 | Robert Johnson | 56th Fighter Group | 61st Fighter Squadron | Fw190 | Kiel, Germany | Western Front | |
| 13/04/1944 | Robert Johnson | 56th Fighter Group | 61st Fighter Squadron | Fw190 | Kaiserslautern, Germany | Western Front | |
| 13/04/1944 | Robert Johnson | 56th Fighter Group | 61st Fighter Squadron | Fw190 | Kaiserslautern, Germany | Western Front | |
| 08/05/1944 | Robert Johnson | 56th Fighter Group | 62nd Fighter Squadron | Me109 | Celle, Germany | Western Front | |
| 08/05/1944 | Robert Johnson | 56th Fighter Group | 62nd Fighter Squadron | Fw190 | Celle, Germany | Western Front |
Known Claims : 27
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