Pilot Signed Prints : Colonel Walker Bud Mahurin

'Bud' Mahurin gained a reputation as one of the USAAF's most colourful fighter Aces. Arriving in the European theatre, flying with the 56th Fighter Group, he indulged in seventeen months of heavy aerial combat, during which he suffered one crash and was forced to bail out three times, finally landing behind enemy lines. Undaunted he made contact with the French Resistance, and found his way back to England. He had by this time shot down 21 German aircraft. He then transferred to the South west Pacific where he added a Japanese aircraft to his score. 'Bud' Mahurin commanded the 4th Fighter Interceptor Group in Korea where he added 3.5 MiG-15s to his tally before being shot down, for the last time, to spend a gruelling sixteen months as a POW.