To: Yardstick
Typicaly when a pilot changes planes, he’ll add another number to it. “Shirley Jane” may have been a P-40, while “Shirley Jane II” may have been a P-47 razorback. I believe Chuck Yeager was up to “Glamorous Glenn IV” by the end of the war.
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01/18/2013 5:42:00 PM PST by
75thOVI
("The crews of all submarines captured should be treated as pirates and hanged". Sir Arthur Wilson)
To: 75thOVI
Okay, so as the pilots were assigned new planes, which I guess would happen if the mission changed or their old plane was retired for whatever reason, they would move the name to their new plane and increment the number by 1. That makes sense.
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