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Colonel Billy Gene Edens - Art prints and originals signed by Colonel Billy Gene Edens

Colonel Billy Gene Edens

Ace with 8.00 Victories

Born on January 21st, 1923, in Cassbille, Mo., Billy Edens graduated form school on June 1st, 1942, and on the 27th of June Billy Edens joined the Army Air Corp. On May 3rd 1943 Edens became an aviation cadet and received all his flight training in Alabama, receiving his wings and commission on November 3rd 1943. Second Lieutenant Edens was assigned to the 62nd Fighter Squadron of the 56th Fighter Group in England in April 1944. On the 8th of June 1944, while defending flight leader Mark Moseley, Edens destroyed two Me109s and an Fw190 to earn a triple in one day. On 10th September 1944 during his 89th and final mission Edens was hit by flak over France and shot down (for the fourth time) while strafing the Seligenstadt Airdrome and became a POW at Stalag Luft I in Barth, Germany for the remainder of the war. Edens wouold go on to fly F-84s during the Korean War, where he would again be shot down but not captured. That was the end of his flying during the Korean war but, Eden, who had flown 153 missions, went on to fly F-100s in Vietnam, becoming a full colonel during his second tour. Col. Billy G. Edens received the Silver Star, DFC with 3 OLCs, Bronze Star, Purple Heart with one OLC, and the Air Medal with 15 OLCs.

Colonel Billy Gene Edens

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 The 56th Fighter Group was led by some of Americas greatest fighter leaders of World War II and was home to many of its leading fighter Aces.  Under successive commanders Hub Zemke, Robert Landry and David Schilling, the 56th destroyed more enemy ai......
The Wolfpack by Robert Taylor. (AP)
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 The 56th Fighter Group was led by some of Americas greatest fighter leaders of World War II and was home to many of its leading fighter Aces.  Under successive commanders Hub Zemke, Robert Landry and David Schilling, the 56th destroyed more enemy ai......
The Wolfpack by Robert Taylor. (B)
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The 56th Fighter Group was led by some of Americas greatest fighter leaders of World War II and was home to many of its leading fighter Aces. Under successive commanders Hub Zemke, Robert Landry and David Schilling, the 56th destroyed more enemy ai......

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 The 56th Fighter Group was led by some of Americas greatest fighter leaders of World War II and was home to many of its leading fighter Aces.  Under successive commanders Hub Zemke, Robert Landry and David Schilling, the 56th destroyed more enemy ai......
The Wolfpack by Robert Taylor. (C)
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Pack 756. Pack of two Thunderbolt aircraft prints by Robert Taylor and Nicolas Trudgian.
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The Wolfpack by Robert Taylor. (B)
Thunderbolts and Lightnings by Nicolas Trudgian. (AP)

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Pack 757. Pack of two Thunderbolt prints by Robert Taylor.
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The Wolfpack by Robert Taylor. (B)
Thunderbolt Strike by Robert Taylor.

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Pack 760. Pack of two P47 Thunderbolt prints by Robert Taylor and Simon Smith.
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The Wolfpack by Robert Taylor. (B)
Return From Bremen by Simon Smith.

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Pack 761. Pack of two P-47 Thunderbolt prints by Robert Taylor and Ivan Berryman.
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The Wolfpack by Robert Taylor. (B)
Duxford Pair by Ivan Berryman (GS)

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