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 Post subject: Robert Thacker obit
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Flew a B-17 into Hickam on 12/7/41 and flew the P-82 Betty Jo from Hawaii to New York in 1947.


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Did Col Thacker not also ferry the F-82 that the CAF had from wherever it was salvaged, to Midland, back in the seventies?

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