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Classic Wings Magazine WWII Naval Aviation Research Pacific Luftwaffe Resource Center
When Hollywood Ruled The Skies - Volumes 1 through 4 by Bruce Oriss


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Jack Cook
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Col Cecil Wells CO 358th FG 1944
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365th FG "Hell Hawks" France 1944
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Lt Tom Manjak 365th FG and don't ask me to explain the name!
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353rd FS 354th Fg Nov 1944
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Excellent, Jack! Thanks for sharing such magnificent shots. The last one is a great one from an artist's point of view and actually brings back memories of a beauty of a colour movie, starring Edmund O'Brien, called...........grrrrrr....somebody help an old man jog his memory! :oops:

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killer pics as usual...

P-47 of the 56th Fighter Group escorting a B-17 - Antwerp, 4 May 1943

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Fighter Squadron

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P-47 of the 56th Fighter Group escorting a B-17 - Antwerp, 4 May 1943

P-47C s/n 41-6342 "Saucy Shirley" flown by Capt Ray Dauphin
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Jack, once again, many-many thanks for sharing your treasure trove.

Every time you (and others) post pictures of the pilots, aircrew and groundcrew "back in the day" I am pointedly reminded these common citizens did very uncommon actions in the name of our liberty.

I think for the most part, the WWII USAAF training program did a good job of identifying/classifying and training very young men to be so effective as combat pilots & aircrew. I sincerely doubt that I would have measured up at that young age, as obviously Captain Ray Dauplin did.
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Jack, Do you have any cool non-black A/B-26 Invader pics. I'm trying to find a good scheme for my ship.

Keep up the good postings... :D

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Jack Cook wrote:
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It's a little known fact that due to a mid-war steel shortage, a brief production run of P-47's were equipped with a radical super-secret all-rubber prop produced by Goodyear. :lol:

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I'd like to see "Fighter Squadron" again.

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Thanks Jack for the great photos. One question, does anybody have pictures from the CBI? The few I have from Pop are very limited. Love to see anybody's collection or single picture, or anything...

I am the ultimate Razorback lover but can't find much from the theater where my father earned his DFC.

Thanks for any help.

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One question, does anybody have pictures from the CBI?

I have a couple but none of the 33rd FG will look.
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Jack, Do you have any cool non-black A/B-26 Invader pics. I'm trying to find a good scheme for my ship.

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Yes I've got some of the 386th BG in 1945 give me a couple days and I'll post them for you.

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