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Some of the "Old Guard"
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Strout and
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Before and After
Ernie Thygeson
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Llorente, Rawles, Sortommes and Spears
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William McCoy Bowers
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Chuck Wahl and David Llorente
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Ed Tooley
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Wahl and his true love
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Stan Strout and Art Gaston
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V-Mail Xmas Greeting from Ed Tooley -- 1944
Remember these?
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Don Taylor and his homebuilt Thorp T-18 airplane. Don flew this airplane around the world
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In subsequent years after operations in the CBI theater, the 25th Fighter Squadron was reactivated at Naha, Okinawa in 1946 and the center emblem was the new squadron insignia. In the post Korea and Vietnam War periods a new emblem was created, however, its tone did have some resemblance with the original Assam Draggin emblem. Me thinks they should left the squadron emblem as it was, it's the best of the lot - - if nothing else but for tradition.
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