Us Official Photographs

Lt Rittle in P51 Mustang cockpit

2nd Lt. Robert E. Rittle, 1523 East 66th Pl., Chicago, Ill., is pictured above in the cockpit of his plane, at his base in Southern Italy. Lt. Rittle has shot down 5 enemy fighters, and is a pilot of a high altitude North American P-51 Mustang of the Mediterranean Allied Air Forces. He is one of 7 men in his veteran fighter group that has accounted for 5 or more enemy aircraft destroyed in aerial combat.