Savageduck <Savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> wrote in
news:2019010715022588587-Savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom:
> On 2019-01-07 20:50:11 +0000, Mitchell Holman <noemail@verizont.net>
> said:
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>> Savageduck <Savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> wrote in
>> news:2019010707352530832-Savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom:
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>> Indeed. Part of this collection, coming
>> up - but I assumed the tail markings
>> meant it was a stateside trainer.
>>
>> Just goes to show..........
>
> Nope! Not stateside.
>
> Jimmy Poston went through basic, and advanced flight school (43G
> Craig Field, & Page Field) with my father. They were both assigned as
> P-47 replacement pilots to the 9th Fighter Sqn, 49th Fighter Group in
> New Guinea. They flew P-47s out of Dobodura NG for about 3 months, and
> then the sqadron converted back to P-38s, which they flew until the
> end of the war. Both of them were part of the first fighter groups
> into Tacloban, Leyte.
>
> My father's orders, and Poston's mirrored each other even to the point
> of them going on stateside leave together in November 1944, and
> returning to Linguyan, and Okinawa for a second tour. Neither one of
> them flew P-38s stateside. After VJ Day they both returned to the
> states to Luke, and started flying P-51s.
>
> Here are Jimmy Poston (left), and my father at Gusap, New Guinea 1943.
>
> Attachment decoded: untitled-2.txt
Very nice, thanks for posting.
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