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When Hollywood Ruled The Skies - Volumes 1 through 4 by Bruce Oriss


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PostPosted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 9:59 am 
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Enough already! Way to many heros out there who never flew a shark mouthed P-40!!
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Col Ivan McElroy CO 80th FG CBI 12-44
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P-40K stateside 1943
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P-40E Lt George Preddy 9th FS 49th FG 1942
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P-40K Maj. Larson CO 18th FS 11th AF 1943
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P-40M 44th FS Guadalcanal 1943 Capt Bade & SSgt Cooley
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P-40Ns Napier field, AL
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Capt Frank Gaunt leads 1Lt Cy Gladen 44th FS Solomans 1943
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Geoff Fiskem and P-40M
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Capt Frank Gaunt in P-40M #128 44th FS off New Georgia 1943
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Capt Sam Hitchcock flies P-40F 41-14112 off the USS Nassau 11-42
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Woops! :shock:

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no teefers....... how refreshing!!! thanks for letting me gum these pics jack!!

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Thanks Jack. That WAS refreshing! :lol:

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A thousand thank you's, Jack. :wink:

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Yes Thanks Jack!! nice to see a P-40 with out a shark face! :wink:

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Wow, someone went to alot of trouble in photoshop on all those pics... EVERYONE knows that every P-40 ever made had a shark's mouth! ;) :lol: Hahaha!


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Good one Jack! :lol: It's a refreshing change to see a shark's mouth without a P-40 nose.


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AWESOME PICS. JACK


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So that's what happens when you try to recover a ditched P-40! :o


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anybody notice the serial of the P-40 in the next to last photo :shock: :roll: :idea: :idea: :idea: :? :wink:

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This will really piss off the AVG cult!

Great stuff- Thanks


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Jack Cook wrote:
anybody notice the serial of the P-40 in the next to last photo :shock: :roll: :idea: :idea: :idea: :? :wink:

Very nice Jack, Judy Pay's P-40F.

Do you happen to have any pics of the 49th Fg a/c 'The Saint' now at Santa Rosa? 'Pacific Wrecks' referenced a picture of it in WWII in a book.


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This will really piss off the AVG cult!

Great I get enough hate mail from the AVG whorshipers already :shock: :!:

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Des Alexander and Dutch pilot with his P-40 Kittyhawk and pet dog "Woden" in Merauke
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I must say I do like this look:
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But then again whis looks pretty good as well.
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I took the top photo at Classic Fighters 2007 and the bottom one at Warbirds Over Wanaka 2006

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