P-51 Mustang by artist Nicolas Trudgian

Col Anderson is a WWII Triple Ace fighter pilot and a veteran military experimental test pilot.

During WWII he served two combat tours escorting heavy bomber over Europe in the P-51 Mustang, November 1943 through January 1945. He flew 116 combat mission (480 hrs) and destroyed 16 and 1/4 enemy aircraft in aerial combat and another one on the ground.