391st BG, 575th BS.
The Fifinella design from Disney has been a favorite of mine https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search?q=fifinella
and Gremlin Gus, an adorable character
Friday, December 05, 2025
In the winter of 1980 The Chicago Milwaukee St Paul and Pacific Railroad (Milwaukee Road) abandoned almost two thousand miles of track west of Miles City Montana.
Naval air stations in Kansas
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=2371980873154964&set=pcb.2796626110509222
Gregg pointed out, in the comments:
A number of pilot training bases were built in Kansas because of more and better flying weather. Some became Municipal Airports.
The Base south of Hutchinson became the states police training academy and Collins Bus has a manufacturing plant there.
Thursday, December 04, 2025
two of the coolest license plates I've seen for a long time!
Whoa! A Milton Caniff! I've never seen this before! The Nighthawks, Marine night fighter squadron 543
It's been quite a few years since I posted Milton Caniff nose art! If you missed it then, check it out real fast, he was awesome, one of the best of his generation, and though you might not recall Male Call, the strip he did ONLY for the ENLISTED! You probably know of the legendary Terry and The Pirates
And I posted the best of it, Miss Lace the famous character, which was nose art on a couple of bombers! https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search?q=caniff
done for President Truman’s plane, the “Sacred Cow.”
The plane’s official name was “The Flying White House” but it was better known as the Sacred Cow because of its heavy security.
President Roosevelt used the “Sacred Cow” to go to the Yalta Conference in 1945 to meet with Churchill and Stalin to discuss postwar Europe. This was the only time he used the plane since he died 2 months later. President Truman used the plane during his first 27 months in office.
Royal Netherlands Military Flying School (RNMFS) “Shooting gremlin in a wooden shoe” insignia created by Disney in 1943 on request by the RNMF’s air gunner cadets.
Used as the emblem for the B-25 ferry flights from Jackson Mississippi US to Australia becoming part of the Dutch/Australian 18th Squadron NEI.
USS Kenton, APA-122 was an attack transport named for Kenton County, Kentucky.
She was launched in August 1944 and was acquired by the Navy two months later. Following shakedown, Kenton transported roughly 1,500 Army troops to Pearl Harbor, and from there to the Philippines.
