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L to R: Robert W. Griesbach, ?, ? (Ed Orr collection)

Edward A. Orr (Ed Orr collection)

? on the (left) John W. Hulme (right) (Ed Orr collection)

Andrew 'Rocky' M. Janasik (left) Joe G. Stanovich (right) (Ed Orr collection)

Ed Orr (Ed Orr collection)

L to R: Fred Spelling, Howard M. Baker (back), ?, Orville Cornforth (sitting), Fred Baucom (standing), John T. Bral (kneeling at right end) (Edd Orr collection)

L to R: William E. Breedlove, James C. Phillips, Andrew 'Rocky' Janasik (Ed Orr collection)

L to R: J.C. Anderson, ?, ?, Joseph G. Gates (Ed Orr collection)

WAR IS OVER ! Loading into DC-3s for flight to Naples to board Liberty ships for the voyage back to the USA (Ed Orr collection)

Howard M. Baker heading for Phillipiville, Algeria (Ed Orr collection)

Friend and Ed Orr (right), headed to Phillipiville, Algeria (Ed Orr collection)

L to R: Ed Orr, John Bral, Walter Babino, Howard Baker (Ed Orr collection)

'My Baby' with crewman Jesse Adams and Phil Stockman (Ed Orr collection)

L to R: Ass't Crew Chief- Lawrence Hansen, Pilot- Lt. Marc Strumpel, Crew Chief- Joe Gates with aircraft 'AV' at Lecce, Italy 1943 (Ed Orr collection)

L to R standing: Rocky Janasik, Edward J. Keenan, John Bral. Kneeling (left) Otto Faach, Orville Cornforth (right) doing engine change at Lecce, 1943 (Ed Orr collection)

Ralph 'Red' Rayfield, Oper. (left) and Clyde 'Pop' Strauser, Line Chief (right) (Ed Orr collection)

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- The new article by Warren Thompson will appear in the special P-38 issue of Flight Journal magazine and is entitled "Turkey Shoot Over Vienna". It covers the mission in which the 82nd FG shot down 21 German aircraft in one mission. UPDATE--The article will actually appear in the June issue, not the upcoming issue as reported here before. Sorry for any problems this may have caused.

- 2003 Reunion info is coming in.-more.

- The Jan. 2003 issue of Fly Past magazine contains an article about the 82nd Fighter Group written by Warren Thompson. The magazine is currently available at Border's and Barnes & Noble in their magazine racks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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