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http://abcnews.go.com/US/painting-solve ... d=14204126

Herman Spoede was a member of the Hellhawks Squadron when he made his last flight on July 3, 1943.

According to military records posted on Dan McAnarney's web site,visibility was zero that day, and it's believed Spoede's radio could transmit but not receive messages.

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Well if I can't rollerskate around my playpen while smoking and drinking a beer, I'm staying home..

I don't see any mystery being solved here, but it is a good story.

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Dave

The mystery was the identity of the pilot. The artist said he didn't know the name of the pilot, and only recently was the name discovered, and the painting given to the pilot's family.

Walt

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If God had intended airplane engines to have horizontally-opposed cylinders, Pratt & Whitney would have built them that way.

That was a really poorly written article about what I'm sure is an interesting story. I hate journalistic writing. They teach them to write like that in school, hitting the main points and then digressing into details. It's very non-linear and lousy for story-telling...especially mysteries.

There are over a dozen comments to the article, and most of them express confusion as to what the mystery is. That's a journalistic fail.

As far as I can tell, it was actually a website that helped solve the mystery.

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What is red, furry and on your six?

It probably got edited into nothingness by a bad editor.

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"I knew the jig was up when I saw the P-51D-20-NA Mustang blue-nosed bastards from Bodney, and by the way the blue was more of a royal blue than an indigo and the inner landing gear interiors were NOT green, over Berlin."