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Thanks for your service, Lt. Vincent.

kevin

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FOUND the elusive DT-built B-24! Woo-hoo!!!

Welcome home Lieutenant, and thank you for your service.

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Don't make me go get my flying monkeys-

I referenced Alan C. Carey's superb, Leatherneck Bombers: Marine Corps PBJ Mitchell Squadrons in World War II, to find that Vincent was with VMB-423 and is actually listed as a Technical Sergeant. Looks like they were flying BuNo35087, a PBJ-1D on an operational (non-combat) mission.

Welcome home indeed. I wish I'd been the Captain of that AA MD-80 that day. As the son of a PBJ pilot, it would have been a unique honor.

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Cheers,

Craig

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Craig,

Did you notice what the airport fire trucks did for that MD-80 on arrival and taxi? They've been doing the water cannons over the airplanes each time the body of a service member comes home to Tulsa. There have been too many of those lately.

kevin

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FOUND the elusive DT-built B-24! Woo-hoo!!!

R.I.P. Sir!

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