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To: Signalman

Few realize that his career was interrupted by WWII and the Korean War. Williams flew bot the P-51 and F-86.
ad e not served is country is career would been much greater and more significant.


34 posted on 05/27/2023 1:51:07 PM PDT by Doc91678 (Doc91678)
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He would have approached 700 HRs without his military service I believe.


37 posted on 05/27/2023 2:03:39 PM PDT by Az Joe (Live free or die)
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To: Doc91678
Ted Williams was a F4U Corsair instructor at NAS Pensacola. When World War II ended, he was in Pearl Harbor awaiting orders to join the fleet in the Western Pacific. In the Korean War, he flew the F9F Panther with VMF-311.
38 posted on 05/27/2023 2:29:41 PM PDT by DFG
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