Friday, November 8, 2024

20 August 1947. Major Marion E. Carl, USMC, left, and Commander Turner F. Caldwell, Jr., USN, stands with the record-setting Douglas D-558-I Skystreak, No. 37970, on Muroc Dry Lake.

 


5 comments:

  1. Marion Carl was murdered while defending his wife and home from an armed assailant. Hero to the end. https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/2011/12/family_of_maj_gen_marion_carl.html

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  2. I leave them to remember.. And now I'm crying..

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  3. I saw that plane in the US Navy Aviation Museum in Pensacola.

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  4. Nice Red, White, and blue composition

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  5. Back when men were men. Like my father, AAF, 1941-1945.

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