P-47 FIGHT COCKS 2

James C. "Wabbit" Hare, pilot of the 57th Fighter Group’s 65th Fighter Squadron “Fighting Cocks”, 12th Air Force, standing in front of his P-47 Thunderbolt at Grosseto, Tuscany, Italy, where the 57th was deployed from 25 September 1944 until 28 April 1945. In background a still nothing fused bomb. Clearly visible on the engine cowling the emblem of the “Fighting Cocks”, one of the three Squadrons of the 57th FG (the other were 66th “Exterminators” and 64th “Black Scorpions”). Victor Sierra