Water Landings, pt 1 - Air France_Tahiti 1993 02.jpg (1/1)

[Mitchell Holman[_9_]]

[Savageduck[_3_]]

On 2019-01-07 05:57:37 -0800, Mitchell Holman > said:

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> <image>

Here is a shot of Lt. Jimmy Poston 9th FS, in the water off the end of
the runway at Tacloban, Leyte.


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Savageduck

[Mitchell Holman[_9_]]

Savageduck > wrote in
news:2019010707352530832-Savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom:

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Indeed. Part of this collection, coming
up - but I assumed the tail markings
meant it was a stateside trainer.

Just goes to show..........

[Savageduck[_3_]]

On 2019-01-07 20:50:11 +0000, Mitchell Holman > said:

> Savageduck > wrote in
> news:2019010707352530832-Savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom:
>
>>
>
>
> Indeed. Part of this collection, coming
> up - but I assumed the tail markings
> meant it was a stateside trainer.
>
> Just goes to show..........

Nope! Not stateside.

Jimmy Poston went through basic, and advanced flight school (43G Craig
Field, & Page Field) with my father. They were both assigned as P-47
replacement pilots to the 9th Fighter Sqn, 49th Fighter Group in New
Guinea. They flew P-47s out of Dobodura NG for about 3 months, and then
the sqadron converted back to P-38s, which they flew until the end of
the war. Both of them were part of the first fighter groups into
Tacloban, Leyte.

My father's orders, and Poston's mirrored each other even to the point
of them going on stateside leave together in November 1944, and
returning to Linguyan, and Okinawa for a second tour. Neither one of
them flew P-38s stateside. After VJ Day they both returned to the
states to Luke, and started flying P-51s.

Here are Jimmy Poston (left), and my father at Gusap, New Guinea 1943.



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Regards,

Savageduck

[Mitchell Holman[_9_]]

Savageduck > wrote in
news:2019010715022588587-Savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom:

> On 2019-01-07 20:50:11 +0000, Mitchell Holman >
> said:
>
>> Savageduck > wrote in
>> news:2019010707352530832-Savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom:
>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> Indeed. Part of this collection, coming
>> up - but I assumed the tail markings
>> meant it was a stateside trainer.
>>
>> Just goes to show..........
>
> Nope! Not stateside.
>
> Jimmy Poston went through basic, and advanced flight school (43G
> Craig Field, & Page Field) with my father. They were both assigned as
> P-47 replacement pilots to the 9th Fighter Sqn, 49th Fighter Group in
> New Guinea. They flew P-47s out of Dobodura NG for about 3 months, and
> then the sqadron converted back to P-38s, which they flew until the
> end of the war. Both of them were part of the first fighter groups
> into Tacloban, Leyte.
>
> My father's orders, and Poston's mirrored each other even to the point
> of them going on stateside leave together in November 1944, and
> returning to Linguyan, and Okinawa for a second tour. Neither one of
> them flew P-38s stateside. After VJ Day they both returned to the
> states to Luke, and started flying P-51s.
>
> Here are Jimmy Poston (left), and my father at Gusap, New Guinea 1943.
>
> Attachment decoded: untitled-2.txt


Very nice, thanks for posting.