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A forgotten pilot of Pearl Harbor has died, John Thacker. :cry: He took off in a P-36 and with 3 fellow P-36 pilots engaged A6M Zeros.

God speed sir!
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/ ... 5307.story

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I thought that name looked familiar, I came across it gathering data to do a P-36 scramble, Dec 7th.
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Wasn't there another Thacker flying one of the B-17s? (George? Ed?) After serving a tour in the PTO, he went to the ETO as a squadron commander in the 384th BG.
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TriangleP wrote:
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Wasn't there another Thacker flying one of the B-17s? (George? Ed?) After serving a tour in the PTO, he went to the ETO as a squadron commander in the 384th BG.

...There are 2 Thackers listed on 384th BG website.


One of those being the same Col. Robert E. Thacker that flew the P-82 "Betty Jo" non-stop from Hawaii to NYC in 1947.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Thacker

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