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Pilot reunited with plane 65 years after Iwo Jima (L-5)

Mon Feb 22, 2010 8:20 pm

I was just scrolling through the main news articles on yahoo and was surprised to see a picture of an L-5 come up. Here's the article.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/84929317.html

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Re: Pilot reunited with plane 65 years after Iwo Jima (L-5)

Mon Feb 22, 2010 8:34 pm

You beat me to it! It was on the front page of yahoo.

Re: Pilot reunited with plane 65 years after Iwo Jima (L-5)

Mon Feb 22, 2010 8:41 pm

Nice article! Human Interest and History covered nicely! Don't see enough of that in the papers today.

Re: Pilot reunited with plane 65 years after Iwo Jima (L-5)

Mon Feb 22, 2010 10:05 pm

I can honestly say that I know the feeling - except the plane wasn't the exact one but same make, and the pilot was from Okinawa. VERY neat!

Ryan

Re: Pilot reunited with plane 65 years after Iwo Jima (L-5)

Mon Feb 22, 2010 10:20 pm

Okay, dumbass question of the day from me - which airplane is the "other" L-5 that survived from that squadron? Maybe we can get him in that one too. :)
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