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25th Fighter Sqdn
Page 4
And the story goes on
and on and on - - -
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51st Fighter Group "Charter" Members
They sailed from San Francisco on January 12, 1942
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Front Row: Eakins, Edson, Mackey, Neutz, Hamilton, Hughes, Sortomme and Haines
Back Row: Shaffer, Thygeson, Strout, Youngblood, Hartley, McNeil, Croom, Rawles and Broome
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First 51st Fighter Group
Ass'n Reunion
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Like vintage wine
Echols and Kaiser
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These -51s can't be too fast it took them 3-years to get here
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Kaiser's Medals
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Hoylman with Baglio
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"Clem" Burton
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Gaston, Broome, and Mackey
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Medlin and Harrington
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Hoylman
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Before and After
Ray Kaiser with a pipe
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Before and After
John Larson
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Surely everyone remembers this panel
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Don Taylor
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Livergood and Lawlor meeting Paul Royer as he deplanes from C-47 on crutches after shooting himself down - - that is his second kill blew up and while flying thru debris the wing on his P-40 ripped off. His bailout is another story entirely.
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Joe Nowak
"Chota Joe"
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James Caskey
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"The Kid"
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Merle Hopper
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Hoylman's C-Flight
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Nowak, Watson, Hoylman and Bennevidies
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Strout, Livesay, and Boswell
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