Finally found a copy of this cool World War II photo of Latino fighter ace (six German fighters) Richard Candelaria of El Paso posing in front of his P-51 Mustang in full knight-of-the-air panoply. I’ve seen it cropped and enlarged to better effect, but this one will do. It’s from the site of a new book/dvd about him and a few others.
UPDATE: Found this good after-action report by RC of a 5 Dec 44 encounter near Berlin, including his pulling his high-performance Mustang into a barrel roll “straight down.”
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
