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Jack Cook wrote:Major "Stick" Thorsen CO 30th FS Castel Volturno, Italy 1944
make that 308th FS.... 31st FG
after converting from Spits to Mustangs, his assigned a/c carried the nickname "Nightshade" [P-51B] and "Nightshade II" [P-51D] (nightshade = poisonous plant "atropa belladonna")