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F4Fs USS Enterprise Feb. 1942

F4Fs USS Wasp Aug. 1942

F4U-1D VBF-83 USS Essex July 1945

TBDs USS Enterprise April 1942

VF-17 pilots on Bouganville. Clockwise from top right: "Dirty Eddie" March, Carl Gilbert, Wally Schub, Hal Bitzegio,
Andy Jagger & Whit Wharton.

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I love the VF-17 Pilots photo!
Thanks for posting all these great photos for everyone Jack!
Jerry

Enterprise... April 1942... TBDs...
In two months most of those airplanes will be at the bottom of the Pacific having made the equivalent of the Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Midway!

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I have about 75 VF-17 shots!

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I messed with the VF 17 photo, not the pic itself but how it is presented. For some reason I can see this as being glues in some old photo album. So I made it look that way, just for fun.

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We should make a VF 17 Gallery in the Naval Aviation Resource Center!

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It's funny how one becomes interested in a particular Squadron...
I met many of the surviving members of VF-17 at Oshkosh in 1994. It was quite a treat! Also, Boone Guyton , the Vought Test Pilot, was a former, pre-war, member of VF-17 with Tom Blackburn. After Boone's passing a few years ago, one of my cherised possessions is a First Ed. copy of Blackburn's book, signed by Blackburn to Boone Guyton!
I second the VF-17 Gallery!
Jerry

When my step-dad was stationed at NAS Jax we lived close by Tom Blackburn and I was a frequent visitor to his home. He was the defintion of "salty"! He gave me a ton of stuff including a hunk of stin from F4U-1A #9 "Lonesome Polecat". "Beads" Popp of the squadron was also a close friend gave gave me some cool stuff! Only 2-3 pilots of the squadron left now. How sad is that?

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Scott ... like the aork with the photo to make it old ... looks sharp ..

I played with some pic's here that I hung in my bar to make them look like late 60's early 70's ....

Jack;
You are very fortunate to have that experience. There are a lot of others who never had the chance to have that kind of personal interaction with the Veterans of WWII, and many more who never will in the future.
It's a part of life, but it's very sad.
Jerry