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His Crew Thought He Was CRAZY - Until His P-51B Stopped 30 German Fighters Cold

On a frozen January day in 1944, high above central Germany, one P-51B Mustang slipped into a position no pilot was ever supposed to hold alone. With his fuel nearly gone, his wingmen scattered, and more than thirty German fighters circling a trapped group of B-17s, Lieutenant James Howard did something his own crew would later admit they thought was insane. Instead of breaking away, he stayed—placing his Mustang directly in the enemy’s path again and again, turning presence into a weapon and time into a shield. This is the moment his crew thought he was CRAZY – until his P-51B stopped 30 German fighters cold, not by chasing kills, but by refusing to let the bombers be touched, and in doing so, quietly changed how the Eighth Air Force understood fighter escort forever.