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Here’s one of many examples of our country's ‘hometown’ moral support ads during WWII. This one features a Lockheed P-38 Lightning. This ad appeared in Life Magazine and Popular Mechanics in 1942. Go get’em Maj. Richard Bong! (Richard Ira Bong was America's all-time Ace of Aces, downing 40 enemy planes in the Pacific theater of the war while flying P-38 fighter planes. Bong was killed August 6, 1945, the day the Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, when the P-80 Shooting Star he was testing for Lockheed stalled and crashed on take-off.)
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Added: 19th August 2007
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Posted by: Teresa on 2007-08-19
cool . . i like the flying info too! thanks . .my Dad flew a little Cessna, and was always telling me about the great pilots . . great memories
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Posted by: Marie on 2007-08-19
after all that! and he died taking off . . didn't Patton die unremarkably?
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yep, u're right marie . . just one day before Patton was supposed to go back to the US, he was in a car acccident with his chief of staff, maj gen Hap Gay. They had been hunting pheasants. A truck hit them and Patton was paralyzed from the neck down and he died of an embolism. .
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Jimmy Jet, as you know, per our discussions, that the P-38 was my favorite WWII aircraft! Thanks for finding the ad.
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Posted by: Jarg on 2007-12-28
The p-38 designed by Clarence Kelly Johnson,who also designed the Blackbird during the cold war.
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Posted by: Cliffy on 2007-12-28
The Blackbird was and still is a plane that was so ahead of itself!
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