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Phil Taback at Mines Field (Phil Taback collection)

 

Phil Taback's first plane (Phil Taback collection)

 

Lem McDaniel, Merle Larson, Phil Taback near St. Louis on crosscountry train trip to New York to board the Queen Mary headed for Ireland (Phil Taback collection)

 

Phil Taback getting some air time (Phil Taback collection)

 

Phil Taback crew (Phil Taback collection)

 

Herman Visscher in the cockpit (Phil Taback collection)

 

Phil's 'office' (Phil Taback collection)

 

Phil after get his bars (Phil Taback collection)

 

Phil and 3 members of his ground crew (Phil Taback collection)

 

After chow, members of the 97th FS, stand in line to clean their mess kits. (Phil Taback collection)

 

L to R: Herman Visscher, Len Pratt, Bill Reas, ? at Long Beach (Phil Taback 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.