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Jack Cook
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Aces of the 39th FS clockwise from top left. Dick Suehr, John "Shady" Lane, Stan Andrews, Ken Sparks, Tom Lynch and Charlie O'Sullivan

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Smoking a butt next to a P-38, I don't think you will see that again ! :o
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Do you have anything on William B. Rogers from the 39th??

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Do you have anything on William B. Rogers from the 39th??

Harrison Rogers??

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I was just given the name William Brevard Rogers who
wrote the book Outcast Red.

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Jack,

Any idea if Charles King is still with us? I believe he was from the Green Bay area.

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it's amazing the amount of responsibility & maturity that these ww 2 era kids took, today's youth should study their ancestors sacrifices & dicipline.

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phil65 wrote:
Smoking a butt next to a P-38, I don't think you will see that again ! :o
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I have story related to me in my father's memoirs (used to create my book for him "Fire From the Clouds") of his first G load black out in a P-47 (60th FS, 33rd FG CBI) when he came to he was in a death spin, got out of it, flew to 10,000 feet and smoked a pack of cigarettes before landing.

How about fumes in the cockpit of one of those Jugs? Pretty different times, eh?

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Is that the same Charles W King Martin Caidin wrote about in "Fork-Tailed Devil"?

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Howdy Dan K and Elroy

The 39th FS Pilots William Rogers and Charles King, both passed away a couple of years back

Bill Rogers had produced two books on the 39th FS

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Martin Caidin wrote about in "Fork-Tailed Devil"



Ah...another post-war "Caidinism." Apparently the Germans (nor Americans, for that matter) never used that nickname for P-38s.

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tom d. friedman wrote:
it's amazing the amount of responsibility & maturity that these ww 2 era kids took, today's youth should study their ancestors sacrifices & dicipline.


No kidding! It never ceases to amaze me when I see these photos and am reminded just how young they all were and how much "necessity" forced upon them..........
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no kidding.... do you know how many under 30 year old full bird ww2 colonels there were?? countless!!

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