Group Portrait of Leading Fighter Pilots

(Original Caption) These pilots, current and former members of the world's leading fighter group, the Fifth Air Force's 49th, with 537 Jap planes shot down to their credit, pose in front of one of their P-38 Lightnings with which they downed 37 Nips during their first week in the Philippines. Left to right are: Lt. Col. George A. Walker, Council Bluff, Iowa, group commander; Col. Robert Morrisey, Tecumseh, Nebraska; Major Gerald Johnson, Eugene, Oregon; Lt. Milden Mathre, Cedar Falls, Iowa; Major Wallace R. Jordan, Long Beach, California; Major Richard I. Bong, America's "Ace of Aces" of Poplar, Wisconsin; Major Thomas B. McGuire, Ridgewood, N.J., and Captain Robert Dehaven of Hollywood, California.