Herky's Big Day by Stan Stokes. SIG1004C as did Lieutenant Colonel Kimball

as did Lieutenant Colonel Kimball

The individual acts of courage were equally splendid

During the opening nights of Operation Desert Storm hundreds of RAF

Signed by Kit Carson

moments before he received a mortal wound

Herky's Big Day by Stan Stokes. SIG1004C as did Lieutenant Colonel KimballSTK0037. Herky's Big Day by Stan Stokes. The Republic P 47 Thunderbolt, or Jug7 as it was more popularly called, was the mount of many of the American aces of WW 11. The P 47 represented the crowning achievement from two aircraft designers, Alexander Kartvelli and Alexander De Seversky, both immigrants from Russia. It came on the heels of two other aircraft, the P 35 and P 43, which were satisfactory pre war designs, but not up to the new standards