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CHUCK YEAGER ON FLYING THE P-51 IN COMBAT
THE AVIATION ADVENTURE
PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE
SOLE SURVIVORS
A PILOT AND HIS
MARINE CORPS
MITCHELL
HEAD TO HEAD
PROP
VS.
JET
Mustang Ace Takes
on an Me 262
MACCHI
VS.
P-38
Italian Fighter Pilot Tangles
with His First Lightning
FW 190 BUTCHER BIRD
VS.
HELLCAT & CORSAIR
August 2020
GENDA’S ACES
Inside Japan’s
Elite Squadron
FLIGHTJOURNAL.COM
OLD RELIABLE
The Army’s
L-19 Birddog
CLASSIC KINNER
Radial Powered
Monoplane
FLIGHT JOURNAL
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AUGUST 2020
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FEATURES
REGULARS
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Sole Survivors
A pilot and his Marine Corps Mitchell
By Capt. John Morgan, U.S. Marine Corps (Ret.)
as told to Doug DeCaster
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Editorial
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Airdrop
46
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Gallery
64
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Review Runway
66
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Tailview
ON THE COVER:
Jason Somes,
of the Socal CAF Wing brings
it in close for the camera in the
Camarillo Museums NAA
PBJ-1J, the sole surviving
'Marine Mitchell'.
THIS PAGE:
Sunset Raider,
SoCal Wings PBJ-1J reenacts
what it did many times during
WW2, heading out over the
Pacific, this time though near
Oxnard, CA. (Photo SoCal Wing
CAF/John Dibbs)
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Dueling in the Fast Lane
A Mustang pilot nails his prey
By Warren Thompson
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Butcher Bird vs. Hellcat
& Corsair
A test pilot recalls
By Rear Adm. C.C. “Andy” Andrews, U.S. Navy (Ret.)
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Macchi 202 vs. P-38L
An Italian fighter pilot tangles with a Lightning
By Gen. Francesco Fagiolo, as told to and written by
Manlio Palmieri
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Memoirs of a Japanese
Fighter Pilot
The last-ditch efforts of the squadron of aces
by Ron Werneth
EDITORIAL
AUGUST 2020
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VOLUME 27, NO. 4
Pacific Survivors
or America, WW II
began and ended in
the Pacific. From Pearl
Harbor, the war moved
quickly from island to island,
many of these obscure volcanic
atolls no one ever heard of: Gua-
dalcanal, Rabaul, Emirau, Tarawa,
Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and so many
EDITORIAL
Executive Editor
Debra Cleghorn
Editors
Gerry Yarrish, Matt Boyd
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
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Captain John Morgan at Midway Beach.
more. These idyllic islands, with
their beautiful coral shores,
palms, and tropical breezes, were
a sharp contrast to the savage
and sinister enemy that occupied
them. They were also home to
some of the most brutal land,
sea, and air battles of the war.
America called on a young gen-
eration of warriors to take on this
enemy and so many answered.
One of them was Captain John
Morgan, and he wanted to fly.
Our feature “Sole Survivors”
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FlightJournal.com
chronicles the wartime adven-
tures of John, who may be one
of the only surviving PBJ Marine
pilots still with us at 96 years of
age. Doug DeCaster recently had
the opportunity to sit down with
John and get the story directly
from him!
Though not as prolific and
glamorous as Corsairs and
Hellcats, PBJ B-25s and their
crews logged thousands of hours
of critical missions during the
Pacific Campaign. Equally as
rare is the Commemorative Air
Force’s NAA PBJ-1J Mitchell—the
very same variant John flew
during his tour—also featured
in the article, its vintage beauty
captured in the lens of John
Dibbs’s camera.
And in keeping with the
survivor theme, we have a
piece by General Charles
Yeager on flying the P-51
in combat. At 97 years
young, it’s hard to imagine
anyone who has inspired
more generations of young
Americans to take to the skies
and influenced the preservation
of our invaluable warbirds as he
has. He certainly has “The Right
Stuff.”
While mechanical warriors
like the PBJ and Mustang will
continue to be with us in one
way or another, the day is
approaching when the brave
young men who sat at their
controls and risked their lives for
our freedom will be gone. We at
Flight Journal
salute and honor
them.
Bud Anderson, James P. Busha, Ted Carlson,
Robert S. DeGroat, John Dibbs, Jim Farmer,
Paul Gillcrist, Phil Haun, Randy Jolly,
Frederick Johnsen, Geoffrey P. Jones,
Ron Kaplan, Peter Lert, Rick Llinares,
John Lowery, George Marrett, Peter Mersky,
Dan Patterson, Steve Pace, Stan Piet,
Alfred Price, Warren ompson, David Truby,
Barnaby Wainfan
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