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During the period Apr 1956 to Apr 1959, I was employed by my Uncle Sam as an engine mechanic, reciprocating and worked on R-3350-89A Turbo-Compound engines installed on C-119G Flying Boxcars. In tech school, we were taught that, before attempting to start any cold radial engine, it was...

Super. A kaleidoscope of airplanes, bombs, and stuff.

Do they have a C-119 in their museum?

The firsthand account of that campaign from the infantryman's point of view is contained in the book by Audie Murphy entitled "To Hell and Back". He made the trip depicted by the photographs and may have been one of the many soldiers pictured. If you've never read Murphy's account, you need...

Current F1 Champion, Lewis Hamilton, says that he doesn't use the paddle shifters that his LaFerrari is equipped with. Runs it in automatic mode. He also has a '67(?) 350GT Shelby Cobra. How's that for contrast?