According To The Artist, I Visited Korat, Thailand To Research Some Young Fighter Pilots Flying To North Vietnam. Surely One Of The Most Outstanding, Intelligent, And Out Spoken Was Lt. Karl Richter, 24 Years Old Who Was On The Wing Staff And Completing His Second Hundred Missions. We Talked And I Painted Him Between Missions From Life For Several Days. A Month And A Half Later He Was Shot Down On His 198th Mission And Died During His Rescue Out.