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Title: Jug pilot's cartoon war journal
Post by: Tarmac on September 26, 2003, 10:36:58 PM: A site put up by his son, showing his wartime cartoon drawings. The artist, George Rarey, was a P-47 pilot killed over France.

Good stuff.

http://www.rareybird.com/index.html
Title: Jug pilot's cartoon war journal
Post by: Maverick on September 27, 2003, 12:16:03 AM: Tarmac,

Thanks for that link. A shame and a true loss to the world that that man didn't get to come home. ~~Cpt Rarey~~
Title: Jug pilot's cartoon war journal
Post by: Tarmac on September 27, 2003, 01:58:26 AM: My favorite... reminds us why soldiers fight.

(http://www.rareybird.com/civilian.gif)
Title: Jug pilot's cartoon war journal
Post by: eskimo2 on September 27, 2003, 07:34:40 AM: I have his book and am (very) distantly related.

eskimo
Title: Jug pilot's cartoon war journal
Post by: Pooh21 on September 27, 2003, 11:27:12 AM: cool site

thanks for sharing.
Title: Jug pilot's cartoon war journal
Post by: ra on September 27, 2003, 12:11:29 PM: Thanks for the link.

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Capt. Thurmond Morrison, roaring down the metal-plank runway, never got off the ground. At the end of the runway was a gasoline dump (a fine place for it, right?) and Capt. Morrison smashed right into it. A tremendous explosion resulted and those of us on "sweater's hill" wrote him off as one dead fighter pilot. To our utter amazement, he walked back into the operations tent a little later, carrying his parachute and totally unscathed. Two anti-aircraft GIs had run to Capt. Morrison's aid and, using a pickax, pried open his canopy and dragged him out of the burning plane. Capt. Morrison, plane and all, had skidded right through the blazing inferno he had started, but he sat there trapped in his plane until the two GIs pried him out. You have to give credit to a couple of heroes there, to leap on a burning plane carrying a very volatile load of high octane gasoline.

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