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FReeper Canteen ~ Hall of Heroes: Col Bud Mahurin ~ May 24, 2010
Serving The Best Troops and Veterans In The World !! | StarCMC

Posted on 05/23/2010 5:00:00 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska

Our Troops Rock!  Thank you for all you do!
 
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~ Hall of Heroes ~

Col. Bud Mahurin

(Info found here.)

ArmyPatch small   NavySeal small   Air Force Seal   Marines Seal small   Coast Guard Seal small (better)

Thank you to alfa6 for his suggestion of this hero!  What an incredible story this man had!  He is home now, guarding the streets of heaven.  God rest his soul.

Colonel Walker Melville "Bud" Mahurin (December 5, 1918 – May 11, 2010) was a retired officer of the United States Air Force (USAF). During World War II, while serving in the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF), he was a notable flying ace.

Bud Mahurin was the first American pilot to become a double ace in the European Theater and the only ace to shoot down enemy planes in both the European and Pacific Theaters and the Korean War. During World War II he was credited with 20.75 aerial victories, making him the sixth-highest American P-47 ace. He was credited with shooting down 3.5 MiG-15s in Korea, giving him a total of 24.25 aircraft destroyed in aerial combat.


Born in Benton Harbor, Michigan, Mahurin joined the U.S. Army Air Forces as an aviation cadet on September 29, 1941 after several years as an engineering student at Purdue University. Graduating from pilot training on April 29, 1942, he was subsequently assigned to the 63d Fighter Squadron, 56th Fighter Group and deployed to England with the group in January 1943. Based at Halesworth, England, Captain Mahurin became a flight leader in the 63rd FS and began flying missions in May.

On August 17, 1943, he scored his first two aerial victories by shooting down a pair of German Focke-Wulf Fw 190s while escorting B-17 bombers as part of the Schweinfurt-Regensburg mission. One of these fighters was flown by Major Wilhelm "Wutz" Galland, Gruppenkommandeur of II/JG 26, and an ace with some 55 claims to his credit. He became an ace on October 4 after shooting down three Messerschmitt Bf110s. On November 26, Mahurin shot down three more Bf-110s to become the first American pilot in the European Theater of Operations to score 10 aerial victories. His primary aircraft, P-47D-5-RE 42-8487, bore the squadron codes UN:M and was nicknamed The Spirit of Atlantic City, N.J.

Mahurin was promoted to major on March 21, 1944, and on March 27, Major Mahurin's P-47 was heavily damaged by a German Dornier Do-217 bomber he helped shoot down, forcing him to bail out. He was picked up by French Resistance forces and, two months later, returned to England. Due to his knowledge of the French Resistance, he was grounded and sent home.

In October, he again went overseas as commander of the 3rd Fighter Squadron, the combat element of the composite 3rd Air Commando Group in the Philippines. While based at Mangaldan, Luzon, in January 1945 he was credited with a kill of a Japanese bomber. Mahurin was promoted to lieutenant colonel on May 28, 1945 and became commander of the 3rd Air Commando Group in September 1945.


In 1950, at the start of the Korean War, Mahurin was serving in the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force. In July 1951 he became commander of the 1st Fighter Group, training in the North American F-86 Sabre. In December he began a 90-day tour of temporary duty with the 51st Fighter-Interceptor Wing, serving as special assistant to the wing commander, Col. Francis S. Gabreski. Mahurin transferred to the 4th Fighter-Interceptor Wing on March 18, 1952, to command its 4th Fighter-Interceptor Group. On May 13, 1952, while strafing ground targets, his F-86 was shot down by North Korean ground fire; after crash-landing, breaking his arm in the process, he was captured by enemy forces.

Mahurin spent 16 months in a North Korean prisoner of war (POW) camp. He endured torture that included intense questioning, solitary confinement, sleep deprivation, threats of execution, and brainwashing. While being questioned about false claims of the United States' use of biological warfare, he falsely admitted to dropping canisters of insects over North Korea. He was later released in September 1953, well after the war's end, and promoted to full Colonel. His experience in brainwashing techniques provided the U.S. with invaluable material to develop survival training courses. Nevertheless, he and other returning POWs were condemned by Senator Richard Russell, Jr. and others because of their false confessions.


In 1956, Mahurin retired from the U.S. Air Force to accept a senior position in the aviation industry. While the Air Force attributes this to his own choice, stating that he was low on the promotion list to permanent colonel and unlikely to make general, a pilot under his command in Korea, Robert Smith, asserts that the Air Force dishonored itself by pressuring Mahurin to resign from the service as a result of political infighting over the confessions, just four years short of becoming eligible for retirement benefits.

Link to an interview with Col. Mahurin here.

More here.

Thank you, sir, for your service and sacrifice!

Please remember the Canteen is here to honor, support and entertain our troops and their families.  This is a politics-free zone!  Thanks for helping us in our mission! 


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To: BIGLOOK; tomkow6; Kathy in Alaska; All

OH BIG LOOK if you miss it honey I got it

First look at Hawaii Five O reboot 2010

LOOK gooddddd

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLKdYXyQa90&feature=player_embedded

And interview with the cast

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJOhqxHnWa8&feature=related


41 posted on 05/23/2010 6:22:24 PM PDT by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us ,resistance is futile")
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To: PROCON

Hey, Pro, how’re things on the West Coast?

If not for the winds today, we’d have been downright hot in the high desert.


42 posted on 05/23/2010 6:30:22 PM PDT by HiJinx (~ Illegal is a Crime, it is not a Race ~)
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To: PROCON

LOL.

We just had a lady mistake gunpowder for black powder and seasoned her pot of beans with it.


43 posted on 05/23/2010 6:30:51 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (Liberals are educated above their level of intelligence.. Thanks Sr. Angelica)
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To: ConorMacNessa

Prayers lifted.


44 posted on 05/23/2010 6:31:17 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (Liberals are educated above their level of intelligence.. Thanks Sr. Angelica)
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To: Army Air Corps
And close behind....AAC snags the silver!!


45 posted on 05/23/2010 6:32:36 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~)
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To: TASMANIANRED

She keeps some strange things in her spice cabinet!


46 posted on 05/23/2010 6:33:44 PM PDT by oldteen
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To: HiJinx

NW coast is rainy and cool for late May, can never know what Memorial Day weekend weather will be like, last year sunny and 80..this year, who knows!


47 posted on 05/23/2010 6:34:52 PM PDT by PROCON (RVN: 4-70/4-71 A Trp 1st Sqdn. 9th Cav. 1st Cavalry Div. (AM) Air Mobile Sir!)
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To: BulletBobCo
Good evening, Air Force guy.....you round out the top three and bagged the bronze!!


48 posted on 05/23/2010 6:36:00 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~)
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To: oldteen

LOL.

Lotta accidents caused by changing containers and not putting labels on them.


49 posted on 05/23/2010 6:36:25 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (Liberals are educated above their level of intelligence.. Thanks Sr. Angelica)
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To: oldteen

Sorry, forgot to give you a hug.

Hug


50 posted on 05/23/2010 6:36:49 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (Liberals are educated above their level of intelligence.. Thanks Sr. Angelica)
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To: TASMANIANRED

Hugs returned :). I understand people change containers all the time but gun powder??? Makes absolutely no sense what so ever! And, did she eat any of the beans?


51 posted on 05/23/2010 6:40:33 PM PDT by oldteen
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To: BIGLOOK

Aloha, Hawaii....how was your weekend? Catch any fish? Did your umbrella get a workout?


52 posted on 05/23/2010 6:41:21 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~)
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To: TASMANIANRED; oldteen

Taz, I just accidently swallowed 10 9mm bullets, a stuffed rabbit and a plastic milk carton, what should I do???!!!


53 posted on 05/23/2010 6:41:39 PM PDT by PROCON (RVN: 4-70/4-71 A Trp 1st Sqdn. 9th Cav. 1st Cavalry Div. (AM) Air Mobile Sir!)
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To: Kathy in Alaska; laurenmarlowe; BIGLOOK; alfa6; EsmeraldaA; SandRat; mylife; TMSuchman; PROCON; ...


Welcome To All Who Enter This Canteen, To Our Serving Military, To Our Veterans, To All Military Families, To Our FRiends and To Our Allies!





Missing Man Setting

Never Forget Those Who Sacrificed All That We Could Live In Freedom!!





54 posted on 05/23/2010 6:42:14 PM PDT by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines, RVN '69 - St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle!)
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To: PROCON

Stick your finger down your throat and then kick your own a$$! :).


55 posted on 05/23/2010 6:45:54 PM PDT by oldteen
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To: TASMANIANRED; mylife

Gunpowder and beans...

Oh, the places we could go with that!


56 posted on 05/23/2010 6:48:47 PM PDT by HiJinx (~ Illegal is a Crime, it is not a Race ~)
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To: All

OH OH something breaking off Twitter right now about North Korea

cnnbrk South Korea suspends trade with North Korea, closes waters to North’s ships http://on.cnn.com/9L0EFR

Reuters South Korea’s Lee says to take North to Security Council http://link.reuters.com/jym85k

BreakingNews Update: S. Korean president Lee Myung-bak says UN will be asked to examine attack on ship by N. Korea - Yonhap News http://bit.ly/d141L5

BreakingNews S. Korea’s leader vows North will pay price for sinking of naval ship; freezes trade, bans their ships from nation’s waters - Reuters


57 posted on 05/23/2010 6:49:01 PM PDT by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us ,resistance is futile")
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To: Kathy in Alaska; StarCMC; alfa6

Great story of an American hero! Thanks, guys, for making
us aware of his heroism!


58 posted on 05/23/2010 6:49:47 PM PDT by luvie (DIMs?......start packin'--you're fired!)
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To: Kathy in Alaska

Freep mail me to be on or off the Daily Bread ping list

May 24, 2010
Bring Them To Jesus
Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of God. —Mark 10:14

The Scripture reading from Luke 18 about children seemed unusual at the memorial service for David Holquist. After all, he was 77 when he died.

Yet the pastor said the verses fit David, a long-time college professor, perfectly. Part of his legacy was that he took time for children—his own and others’. He made balloon animals and puppets, and helped in a puppet ministry at church. When planning worship services with others, he frequently asked, “What about the children?” He was concerned about what would help the children—not just the adults—to worship God.

Luke 18 shows us the concern Jesus had for children. When people brought little ones to Him, the disciples wanted to protect Jesus, a busy man, from the bothersome children. But it seems that Jesus was not at all bothered by them. Just the opposite. The Bible says that Jesus was “greatly displeased” at the disciples, and said, “Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them” (v.16). Mark adds that Jesus took them in His arms and blessed them (10:14-16).

Let’s examine our own attitude about children and then follow the example of David Holquist. Find some ways to help them come to Jesus.

To those who are teaching the gospel,
With love in their hearts for its truth,
Comes the gentle reminder from heaven,
“Forget not the children and youth.” —Anon.

God has great concern for little children.

59 posted on 05/23/2010 6:50:01 PM PDT by The Mayor (Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is Liberty!)
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To: HiJinx

Good evening, HJ...a good weekend for the HJ household? Nice weather?


60 posted on 05/23/2010 6:50:36 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~)
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