Original Item. Only One Available. This is a signed print of “This is No Drill” by Craig Kodera, signed at the bottom by General Chuck Yeager & Triple Ace Fighter Pilot Bud Anderson. The frame is well-put together and the print is very clear. This is a limited run print, numbered 41/1950.

This print represents a flight by renowned aces Capt. Charles E. Yeager and Maj. Clarence E. Anderson as they flew through the French Alps during the closing months of World War II.  After the war, both pilots would remain in the USAF and have distinguished careers as test pilots.

This is a great print in a beautiful frame, ready for display!

Like many boys his age, a young Bud Anderson would run through his yard with a toy airplane held high over his head, dreaming of flying around the clouds with his own set of wings one day.

From that childhood dream, he would grow to become one of the most fearsome combat fighter pilots of World War II, shooting down more than 16 enemy planes in his P-51 Mustang, “Old Crow,” in the hostile skies above Germany.

Anderson flew two combat tours and 116 missions in World War II, logged countless combat hours and never once was hit by enemy fire or turned back from a mission. He went on to command a squadron of F-86 jet fighters in post-war Korea and, at age 48, flew combat strikes in an F-105 Thunderchief during the Vietnam War in 1970.

“In an airplane, the guy was a mongoose,” General Chuck Yeager writes in the foreword of Anderson’s autobiography. “It’s hard to believe, if the only Bud Anderson you ever knew was the one on the ground. Calm, gentlemanly. A grandfather. Funny. An all-around nice guy. But once you get him in an airplane, he’s vicious. Shot down 17 airplanes. Best fighter pilot I’ve ever seen.”

The recipient of 26 distinguished awards during his 30-year military career, Anderson was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 2008.