Ernie Boyette Print "P-51 Ace, Capt. Robert Goebel"

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ERNIE BOYETTE

Ernie was born to poor parents on a sweet potato farm in Green Cove Springs, Florida. The family raised chickens, rabbits and agriculural foods. The last of seven children, his father died when he was two years old. Growing up, Ernie always helped his mother and encouraged her in her self-taught wildlife painting. When she passed away in 1985, she left him her art supplies and some blank canvasses.

Bored with a job he disliked, he decided to figure out how to paint one night in 1986. He pulled out his mom's "art stuff" and started. Never having an art lesson in life other than what he was taught in public school, Ernie did about ten paintings over the next several years. Trained in marketing, in June 1991, he decided to try art as a business. Convinced he had talent, he swore he would be making his living from his artwork, writing and photography.

Not knowing what he wanted to paint, he liked airplanes and military so he tried that. He started painting one airplane after another. In the spring of 1993, he received his first commission from an F-18 Squadron stationed at Cecil Field, Jacksonville, Florida. Commander John "Lites" Leenhouts employed him to do a black and white Limited Edition of their squadron aircraft.

In 1994 he started his series "Famous American Aviators". His first prints were his heroes, George Gay and Robert "Bob" Scott. Between January 1991 and December 2000 he painted no less than 150 paintings. From March 1993 to September 2000 he published 42 Limited Edition prints along with 36 poster prints. In the fall of 2002 he was commissioned by Cook Cleland's family to paint all three of the F2G Corsair racers that he flew in the late 1940's at the Ohio Air Races. Cook won the Thompson Trophy in 1947 and 1949. Ernie had worked with Cook in 1997 with a print of the SBD dive-bomber he flew in WWII.

In March of 2003 Ernie was officially knighted as a “Knight of Vision” for his efforts in telling the stories of Great britain's famous aviators. Sir Ernie Hamilton Boyette now signs all his original paintings as Sir Hamilton.

His artwork is now marketed nationwide in aviation museum gift shops including the Smithsonian. In November of 2006 his artwork was selected by the new Pearl Harbor Museum, Hawaii, to be sold in their gift shop. Ernie's artwork has also appeared in the Aviation History magazine and his prints are marketed worldwide.

Ernie Boyette S/N Limited Edition Print "P-51 Ace, Robert Goebel"

A Limited Edition 12" by 18" Print Signed and numbered by the artist and co-signed by P-51 Ace, Robert Goebel

Robert Goebel was commissioned as second lieutenant on May 24,1943 at Moore Field Texas. Lieutenant Goebel continued his training in Panama in the P-39. After fighter training, he was transferred to North Africa. He joined the 31st fighter group at Castel Volturno, Italy on April 1, 1944. In Italy, his group was then stationed at San Severo and equipped with the P-51B Mustang. Their main assignments were to fly long-range bomber escort missions.

Robert scored his first aerial victory against a Bf 109 near the Wallersdorf Airdrome on May 29, 1944. On June 23, his seventh trip to the Ploesti oil refineries, Robert was leading Blue flight when four Bf109’s dove through their fighter cover and attacked the bombers. It was not wise to follow enemy aircraft into the bomber formations because you were at risk of being hit by the hundreds of machine guns of the B-24 and B-17 bombers. Robert pulled onto the tail of one of the Germans and fired from 300 yards. Coolant began streaming out of the German’s right wing. Robert followed the German down and watched him crash.

On June 27 during a escort mission to the railroad yards near Budapest, a Bf 110 twin-engine German fighter passed beneath Roberts’s flight. With the confidence of an experienced fighter pilot, Robert called out the bogie, winged over and within moments was at close range firing on the German from dead astern. As Robert broke off his attack, the doomed aircraft spiraled to earth for his third victory.

Goebel became an ace as he scored another Bf109 on July 3rd. His group received their new bubble top Mustangs and Robert was assigned his own aircraft. Everyone was naming their aircraft and Robert chose the "Flying Dutchman" shown above.

The new canopy gave the pilot unlimited visibility. The new Mustang also had two additional machine guns, which proved to be quite deadly on July 20th with the downing of another Messerschmitt. As Robert went to fire on the German he realized that he did not have his gun switch turned on. In the moment it took him to turn on his guns, he looked up and the German aircraft filled his windscreen. Robert had never been so close as he fired on the German from point blank range. Large and small pieces of the doomed aircraft flew by Robert’s Mustang. As Robert over shot the German, he looked back and saw the pilot slumped over in his cockpit, but he was shocked at the damage he had done to the enemy aircraft at such close range and with the full blast of six fifty caliber machine guns. This was Roberts fifth victory, he was now an ace.

August was busy with missions into Germany and France where Robert added six more victories. Robert flew 61 combat missions totaling 305 hours over Southern France, Turkey, Italy and Germany.

After his combat tour, Robert returned to the States and left the service in 1946. His decorations include the Silver Star, Distinguished Flying Cross with one Oak Leaf Cluster, the Air Medal with Seventeen Oak leaf Clusters, and he was credited with 11 aerial victories.

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  • Original/Reproduction: Original Print
  • Listed By: Dealer or Reseller
  • Edition Type: Limited Edition
  • Edition Size: 750
  • Print Type: Lithograph
  • Subject: Military, Political
  • Style: Realism
  • Signed?: Signed
  • Size Type/ Largest Dimension: Medium (Up to 30")
  • Type: Limited Edition

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