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To the left of the Xmas tree is the native style operations office for the airstrip which was further to the left. He said P47s were using it.

Also if your brother is scheduling transport planes to the pacific he knows where to send the contraband cigars. My father in law said plane would land and the pilot would ask around to find him. FIL made sure his commander always got a cigar when he divvied up the supply.

Earlier in the war he was a civilian employee of an Army contractor. His first cruise was a rusty freighter loaded with construction equipment to island 51W off Alaska, Pye island I think, to build a radar station. On arrival you'd jump from a landing craft to large rock on the up swell, then...

My late Seabee father in law told me that in 1944 he helped clean up debris still left from the Pearl harbor attack while awaiting transport out in the Pacific. After arriving in Hawaii the Navy sort of lost track of him - men came and went but he had no assignment - so on days without clean up...

My father was the armorer for FA-356, photo a few posts above, during the Korean War. IIRC, it was a P-80 converted to T-33 converted to pre-production F-94 sent to Korea with the F-94A's. Before that the 68th Fighter Squadron had F-82's. Dad said they would ride on the wings to the end of the...

Not WW2 but family trivia - during the Korean War my father was an armorer for F-82's and later F-94's. During a boy scout trip to San Antonio in the mid-1970's we stayed on Lackland Air Force Base. While touring the base we ran across a F-94 on display, my dad looked at it and said ' that's my...

Looking at the second B-17 in the photo with the dinghy underneath, there is quite a bit more ground clearance than a B-24 has.

I know at least one YF-94 (FA-356) went to Korea with the early production F-94A Starfires during the Korean War.

With no Hurricane, the only practial choice is a Merlin powered Gladiator.