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First blood in the Air

Capt. George D. Pieck of the 404FS claimed a Luftwaffe Me-109 in the 371FG’s first day of air combat in Europe. He went Missing in Action on August 10, 1944, over France. He is remembered on the Tablets of the Missing at the Brittany American Cemetery, St. James, France. (Courtesy “The Story of the 371st Fighter Group in the E.T.O.”)

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