[colorado tanker]

The Denver Post reported an interesting WWII story last weekend. A while back I visited the WWII aviation museum in Colorado Springs. Next door and on the tour is a first rate restoration shop. I saw what was left of a P-38 that had been dug up in the New Guinea jungle.

It turns out sometime later a WWII veteran took the tour and struck up a conversation about that plane. Not only did he fly the P-38, but that was his P-38. They are rushing the job so he might have one last chance to fly his old bird.

http://www.denverpost.com/news/local/ci_28647766/wwii-pilot-100-reunited-with-his-plane

[henkster]

That is a cool story. I hope the veteran gets the chance to fly. I loved “der Gabelschwantzteufel” as the Germans called the P 38. I was a radical but beautiful plane.