PzJgr,
Have you ever been to Keesler or Pope AFB? I used to work at Keesler (only a few miles from the home 20) and when stationed at Bragg we'd go to Pope to thumb down C-130's headin' for the DZ. Oh yeah, 'bout Tinker AFB in OK? I've passed it hundreds of times when I drove big trucks, however, I never had the time to stop, even though we had a terminal just down the street.
Of relatives in WWII I had an uncle (went West a few years ago) that was a turret gunner on an Avenger in the PTO.

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