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Re: Merry Christmas!

Tue Dec 17, 2019 4:21 pm

A friend of mine was the morning DJ on the USS Kitty Hawk's radio station back in '68-'69, so I 'shopped this for his Christmas card:
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Re: Merry Christmas!

Tue Dec 17, 2019 5:40 pm

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I thought the Tomcat image from years ago needed an update :lol:

Re: Merry Christmas!

Tue Dec 17, 2019 7:22 pm

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OOPS It Slipped! Merry Xmas!!!

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Re: Merry Christmas!

Tue Dec 17, 2019 7:24 pm

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Re: Merry Christmas!

Tue Dec 17, 2019 7:26 pm

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Air Group 6, temporarily aboard USS Enterprise during attacks on the Marshall and Gilbert Islands December 25, 1943

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Lieutenant Louis L. Bangs (Air Group 10) played the part. Shown is the Blitzen aircraft. Photograph December 25, 1943

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Lieutenant Louis L. Bangs (Air Group 10) played the part. Shown is the Cupid aircraft. Photograph December 25, 1943

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Lieutenant Louis L. Bangs (Air Group 10) played the part. Shown is the Prancer aircraft. Photograph December 25, 1943

Re: Merry Christmas!

Tue Dec 17, 2019 7:27 pm

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Right side view of Erickson & Remmert's Waco AVN-8 painted with winter scenes, "Loew's" written on the right side of the aircraft and "Merry Xmas" written on the left, Jack Loesing is standing in the foreground and the Administration Building is in the background, Floyd Bennett Field, N.Y. November 24, 1938.

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Left side view of Erickson & Remmert's Waco AVN-8 painted with winter scenes, "Loew's" written on the right side of the aircraft and "Merry Xmas" written on the left, Floyd Bennett Field, N.Y. November 29, 1938.

Re: Merry Christmas!

Tue Dec 17, 2019 7:29 pm

Thanks Mark! I knew you'd have something in your archives :)

Re: Merry Christmas!

Tue Dec 17, 2019 7:38 pm

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USAF Air Force Douglas C-47 Skytrain On Tarmac Santa Claus in 1950

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My Dad's Xmas card when he flew with VF-11 off the USS Hornet

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San Diego, California, Coast Guard Air Station 11th District. Merry Xmas 1944

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Crews unload carge including Xmas mail from an R4D at Bougainville Dec 1943

Re: Merry Christmas!

Tue Dec 17, 2019 7:42 pm

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A Mossie Xmas Gift

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The great folks in the RCAF escorting Santa

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Re: Merry Christmas!

Tue Dec 17, 2019 7:43 pm

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Re: Merry Christmas!

Tue Dec 17, 2019 11:16 pm

Here's a photo of my late, great friend Tom Finkler, taken in front of Santabou at DaNang in 1969. It's from his page on the Caribou Association site at http://www.c-7acaribou.com/album/tfphotos/tf_083.htm:

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He should have been 72 today. Blue skies, Tommy!

Re: Merry Christmas!

Wed Dec 18, 2019 1:44 am

Photo taken in the 1960s
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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everyone.
From the Aviation Heritage Museum, Perth, Western Australia. :drink3:

Re: Merry Christmas!

Wed Dec 18, 2019 5:28 pm

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Re: Merry Christmas!

Fri Dec 20, 2019 2:32 pm

Many years ago, I drew a Christmas card of a MIG-29 flying formation with Santa in silhouette against the moon, with the fat man waving. I recycled it as an editorial cartoon soon afterward for the local newspaper, where I worked.
Geez, that was 1990 I think. I need to find the image and scan it for stuff like this...
I don't have anything else of my own for this theme that I can think of. I draw my own Christmas card each year for my wife and I, but it's always pup-related (we have an adorable little dachshund/poodle cross breed). Two years ago, we were between dogs and didn't own a pup then, so it was Santa buzzing a narrow gauge train the snow...

Re: Merry Christmas!

Fri Dec 20, 2019 10:28 pm

Don't remember where I got this - probably on WIX:
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