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Title: Walsh's 4-Hog
Post by: Greebo on June 04, 2019, 09:46:53 AM

Thanks to Lyric1 for finding me the info for this skin.

Kenneth Walsh joined the USMC in 1933 and served as an aircraft mechanic before earning his wings in 1937. In September 1942 he joined the USMC's first Corsair squadron VMF-124, which was  transferred to Guadalcanal in the South Pacific the following February. Here Walsh's five years of flying experience soon told and within eight months he had scored 20 kills for which he was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honour. He returned to operations in 1945 with VMF-122 in the Philippines before switching to VMF-222 on Okinawa where he scored one more kill in June.

This skin represents Walsh's VMF-222 F4U-4 which featured a light coloured nose, his trademark squadron number 13 as well as 21 kill markings.

(https://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=397242.0;attach=31539)

(https://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=397242.0;attach=31541)

Title: Re: Walsh's 4-Hog
Post by: lyric1 on June 04, 2019, 11:07:46 AM

 :aok

Title: Re: Walsh's 4-Hog
Post by: Devil 505 on June 04, 2019, 11:10:04 AM

Very nice.

Title: Re: Walsh's 4-Hog
Post by: CptTrips on June 04, 2019, 11:54:25 AM

Sweet!

Title: Re: Walsh's 4-Hog
Post by: puller on June 04, 2019, 03:22:14 PM

 :aok

Title: Re: Walsh's 4-Hog
Post by: 800nate800 on June 05, 2019, 08:15:07 PM

magnificent  :devil

Title: Re: Walsh's 4-Hog
Post by: hgtonyvi on June 07, 2019, 12:43:07 AM

 :aok

Title: Re: Walsh's 4-Hog
Post by: save on June 11, 2019, 06:59:11 AM

Very nice, Greebo !

I'm happy Hartmann did not have those big kill-decals for his bird, I wonder how it would look with them  :D

Title: Re: Walsh's 4-Hog
Post by: Nefarious on June 15, 2019, 10:26:56 PM

Great work!