Rex B. Besel, designer of the F4U-1 Corsair, with Major Gregory Boyington, USMCR, circa 1942. (Unattributed)
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Rex B. Besel, designer of the F4U-1 Corsair, with Major Gregory Boyington, USMCR, circa 1942. (Unattributed)
When this happened there was a young man working at Sikorsky airport in Stratford, John Hall. He was my neighbor in Milford where I grew up off of Brewster Rd area. He told me about this when I was 12. How he worked at the airport fuling planes and moving them around the airport. he told me got to fly this plane when he was 17.