That it was a recent picture is obvious, and Dick Bong died in a crash the day of the Hiroshima bomb in August 1945.
I was just trying to bring Bong's name into the discussion as the famous P-38 pilot, but I see someone beat me to it.
of Dick Bong and the lovely Marjorie. In a P-38, of course.
Gotta have the P-38.
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