For Red Baron
Red Baron, John Chapman is a personal friend of mine and your comments are without tact, almost boarding on infantile. :mad: Please keep your comments to the item being discussed and you might gain a "little" more respect.
Steve, you should have been here in April as we hosted a symposium of 352nd pilots. Punchy Powell was the moderator of the symposium and we also had aces Don Bryan, Sandy Moats and Alden Rigby here along with one other P-51 pilot. After the event, the local association brought 5 blue Ford...
Remember this person's handle and make them pay "more" than you did.
As for jackets I own at the moment.
Repro
ELC Cable horse A-2
Avirex A-2 with about 90 aces' signatures on the lining plus other aviation personalities
Original
Star 55J14 G-1
Spiewak goat A-2
IMO, when something is "pre-planned" as an attack on one individual and not just an attack on a base, island, etc., then it is what it is. The U.S. Military even called it an assassination in their reports, so that's what I'm going with. The military also kept this mission "hush hush" even...
Nope, 16 P-38s took off and flew 600 miles to Bouganville and intercepted Admiral Yamamoto's flight and shot him down. The Navy had broken the Japanese code, and because they knew Yamamoto was a stickler for being on time, they knew exactly when and where he was going to be. It was an...
There were two Chinese-American fighter aces during WWII. The went to China in the 30s to fight the Japanese. They are both listed in the American Fighter Aces album because they were both American citizens.
One was Shui-Tin (Arthur) Chen who flew for the Chinese Air Force and had 5.5...
This was the 3rd year for "Hops and Props" and it is a growing sucess. As for the rest of the flight jackets being on display, I'll see what I can do to facilitate that.
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Sorry to tell you this, but the Museum of Flight "does not" belong to Boeing, nor is it part of Boeing. How do I know this? Because I work there. Sorry to sound so sour about your statement, but it's a big bone of contention with the employees that work there when some...
Nice grouping and cool diplay, but I found out a long time ago that you "never" refer to anyone that has a MOH as a winner. You always refer to them as a recipient. I know because I did it in front of a MOH recipient years ago and recieved quite the tongue lashing. They say that it's not a...
I've been on a flight in the "Nine o Nine" twice. Once as a passenger and once to fly it from the co-pilot's seat. Needless to say it was a dream to fly and I was excited beyond anything I can say in this post. ;)
My wife's former boss passed away a few years ago and we happened to catch his obituary in our local paper. Unknown to my wife is that he was a member of the OSS and was Dutch. He parachuted into occupied Europe several times. He was eventually captured by the Germans and put in Dachau...
This jacket's label and all 27798 Dubows from Lost Worlds are incorrect. One, because the first "1" in the 30-1415 is missing. The reason for this is because Dubow used just one thread for the number "1" and it comes off very easily. The owner of Lost Worlds just copied an original label that...
In these times the American military spouses have been complaining that their husbands/wives are away in a combat zone, but they forget how long spouses during WWII were seperated from their loved ones.
My mom for one raised three infants from late 42 to mid 45 on her own while my dad was...
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