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Lt Lewis "Swede" Brown 62nd FS 2.5 kills POW

Major Gabby Gabreski 61st FS 28 kills POW

Major McCollum CO 61st FS

Lt Lyle Aranasian 61st FS

Lt Bob Rankin 61st FS 10 kills

Capt Joe Curtis 63rd FS 3.5 kills

P-47D 63rd FS

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Jack, Those are fantastic!

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Interesting rear view mirror location on "Spirit of Crawford County".

Regards,
Mike

Jack, do you have any more of HV-Z_bar, better known as "Silver Lady"? It's the ship that Shorty Rankin is posing with...

Zack

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[quote="mike furline"]Interesting rear view mirror location on "Spirit of Crawford County".

The placement of that mirror is the result of 63rd crew chief Frank Gyidik. There was another on on the other side of the fuselage as well. I can't recall off the top of my head which plane he did that to first, but I know that once Mahurin flew that plane he insisted that Frank put those same side mirrors on his jug too. This I know from an interview I did with Frank back in May of this year. I can go back and look up which plane in the 63rd was the first to have the side mirrors if you would like...

Zack

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"America's Flying Museum"
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I had a bunch of shots that Paul Conger sent me years ago.
I may have a few left in storage but a lot of them burned with my
house.
I'll look through my photobucket accounts has I had quite a few
scanned along with ones Gene O'Neill sent me and others from Lewis Brown's cousin.

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