A few interesting 'Aviation' personalities ...

[Mark Allen M]

Asked to help find the old LIFE Butch O'Hare series (a very nice one I may add) so as long as I re-post this series you may like a couple more as well. They all punched a profound ticket in their own way in what we could call the Warbird legacy.

Lt Butch O'Hare




On the ramp at NAS Kanehoe following some air-to-air motion picture work for the press














On the ramp at NAS Kanehoe Butch with his boss LCDR John S "Jimmy" Thach following some air-to-air motion picture work for the press












Butch and Jimmy at the O Club

Col Neel E. Kearby, 348th FG commander


Taken at Finschafen airfield New Guinea


Republic Evansville IN P-47D-4-RA serial 42-22668 Kearby's fourth "Fiery Ginger"


He was KIA flying this aircraft on 5 March 1944






It's vertical fin with the serial number still legible resides today in the National Museum of the US Air Force along with Kearby's Medal of Honor


Kearby SSGT Pankyo crew chief


Kearby with his ground crew

Col Jimmy Doolittle






Col Jimmy Doolittle who led the April 1942 air raid on Tokyo addresses aircraft workers at the North American Aviation plant on June 1 1942






Happy Bottom Riding Club Muroc California Pancho Barnes General Jimmy Doolittle and Cecil Meadows peeking between heads in the back row center


General Jimmy Doolittle and Colonel at the time Curtis LeMay in 1945

Eddie Rickenbacker


Eddie Rickenbacker addressing USAAF cadets

















Maj Gregory Boyington


Greg Boyington 1945




Boyington's return from a POW camp and bond tour


GregoryBoyington flying an airplane


Gregory Boyington giving a speech in Santa Barbara CA 1958


Gregory Boyington kissing his wife at a party for his Flying Tiger crewmates Oct 1958


Gregory Boyington with wife and son 1958


Mrs. Gregory Boyington showing her husband his Medal of Honor

Col Jimmy Stewart


Col Jimmy Stewart in his hometown upon his return from WWII










Uniformed actor and pilot Col Jimmy Stewart talking on telephone behind counter at his fathers hardware store Sept 1945

Steve McQueen


Steve McQueen filming "The War Lover" 1961


Steve McQueen and Robert Wagner


RAF Bovingdon 1961 filming "The War Lover"

[Zachary]

Billy Bob Thornton looks a heck of a lot like Neel Kirby!

[Mark Allen M]

Forgot Charles Lindbergh


F4U-1A Corsair of VF-24 at Roi-Namur Kwajelein The pilot is Charles Lindbergh




Lindbergh in a P-36

[The Inspector]

'Buzz' Rickson Ed 'BO' Bolland and Daphne (Shirley Anne Field). If you can find a copy in a used book store, read Martin Caidins 'Everything but the Flak' about rounding up, preparing, and flying the Atlantic in the B-17s used to make the movie- a good Caidin yarn

[gary1954]

Forgot Charles Lindbergh


Lindbergh in a P-36

According to Joe Baugher's pages, 38-102 was subsequently sent to Hawaii with 45th PS and destroyed Dec 7, 1941

[maxum96]

Great pictures! Thanks for posting them. I love the fact that Lindbergh flew combat missions as a civilian.

[tom d. friedman]

mcqueen was always my man!! i remember where i was when he died. i have a small original theater poster from the "war lover"

[tom d. friedman]

Great pictures! Thanks for posting them. I love the fact that Lindbergh flew combat missions as a civilian.

i'm reading a book now on lindbergh & roosevelt entitled "LINDBERGH VS ROOSEVELT THE RIVALRY THAT DIVIDED AMERICA"
BY JAMES P. DUFFY. the book reveals the hate between the two, especially fdr!! he made it a point to smear lindy starting in 1934 during the air mail / airlines / u.s. air corp fiasco right till his death. when lindy went over to the pacific to train pilots on fuel economy he flew some missions strafing, bombing, & bagged a japanese sonia ground support plane. the missions were all hush hush. if roosevelt found out it would have been lindy's neck. fdr really abused his power re: lindy calling him a nazi, nazi dupe, anti semite, etc. he carried around a "benedict arnold" tag for many years till he could clear his name. fdr was more of a s.o.b. than people know.