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kmiles
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This past Monday 8/24/2009 Charles M. McCorkle passed away at age 94. For those of you who do not know, the color scheme that is on The Collings Foundation P-51C is the scheme of the P-51B that Charles flew during the war.

More information here: http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/ ... -908280381

We were really hoping to have him meet up with his old aircraft later this season when the aircraft comes to New England. We missed him by just a few weeks last year as we had left New England when he moved here from CA.
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Good Grief.., he had quite a career!

G*d Speed!!!

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we are losing these heros WAY too fast. God bless them all.
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kmiles wrote:
This past Monday 8/24/2009 Charles M. McCorkle passed away at age 94. For those of you who do not know, the color scheme that is on The Collings Foundation P-51C is the scheme of the P-51B that Charles flew during the war.

More information here: http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/ ... -908280381

We were really hoping to have him meet up with his old aircraft later this season when the aircraft comes to New England. We missed him by just a few weeks last year as we had left New England when he moved here from CA.

Sandy was actually Chief of Staff - Guided Missles Division -SAC, and my father was his deputy in 1958 at the Pentagon. He loved McCorkle but hated Pentagon/Capital Hill politcs. This was 'back in the dya' when the Navy and USAF were piching Talos versus Army Nike/Zeus as SAMs for the 60's

Two fighter aces pitching USN Guided missles for SAC, on Capital Hill? Who wudda thunk it?
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