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JG300-Ascout
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Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2013 9:47 pm
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...no, really. 83 year old USAF Photo Recon Unit "flying sergeant" reviews his wartime Spitfire wheels up landing for first time during interview, with the descendents of the flight surgeon who took the 16mm film.

www.liveleak.com/view?...1370809886

Wow.

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Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2013 10:18 pm Post subject: Re: Too cool for words...."Spitfire 944"
very good _________________ The only good skwerril is a dead un

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Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2013 9:47 am Post subject: Re: Too cool for words...."Spitfire 944"
Excellent story! _________________ Gunter "The road to a friend's house is never long"

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Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2013 1:29 pm
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I wish there'd been a minute or two given over to rest of his career. He was a "mustang", an enlisted man who was later commissioned as a officer and retired in 1968 as a lieutenant colonel. I wonder how he spent that 23 years? He had time there to fly in two other wars, like Robin Olds, if he was still on flight status.

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Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2013 11:50 pm Post subject: Re: Too cool for words...."Spitfire 944"
That was great! And the Good Doctor was from San Berdoo!!!!! Coolness! _________________ "Once your reputation is ruined, you can live quite freely."

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Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2013 12:10 am Post subject: Re: Too cool for words...."Spitfire 944"
- JG300-Stoopy That was great! And the Good Doctor was from San Berdoo!!!!! Coolness! ...and was married to Barbara Steinbeck. I wonder if she was kin to John, who hailed from that area and had attended school at Palo Alto. _________________ "All facts go to clearly prove that Shades is a thrice-cursed traitor & mentally deranged person steeped in inveterate enmity toward mankind"

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