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L1049 Super Constellation VH-EAG CONNIE , ex-USAF , 54-157, was delivered to Qantas in 1955.

It was restored by the Historic Aircraft Restoration Society to air worthiness in 1996.

 

 
 NC121K Constellation - 'Paisano Dos' (Countryman 2) - US Navy Oceanographic Office

This aircraft, No.145925, was used  by the US Navy in the 1970's to map the earths magnetic field.

     
Skylighters   WW II Antiaircraft Artillery, Searchlights, and Radar. My Dad, Junior Muscavitch, ran a search light, as those pictured here, for the 357th.
 
 
 

A Cessna 150 similar to 704NP   

which was equipped to fly IFR   

 
     
The Barb   The Barb  Admiral Fluckey's belief that by going after opportunities you create your luck led to the Barb sinking the greatest amount of tonnage in the Pacific.  He will autograph a copy of 'Thunder Below', his fascinating book, for you.
 
 
 
     
     

  USAT Cristobal   converted SS Cristobal

   
 My Dad, Junior Muscavitch, left Staten Island for Plymouth, England on this US Army Transport 10-6-44 and arrived 10-18-44 with 167 other ships on the Atlantic's greatest single convoy.            
  Converted from a prewar
Caribbean vacation cruise ship.
 
   
  Panama Line Steamships Go to War  by Doris Monaco, Tampa, FL.  Doris grew up in the Panama Canal Zone, where the city of Cristobal is located.
 
 
 
 
 
 
     
The following narrative regarding the Cristobal is from the Army publication  The Story of The 357th Antiaircraft Artillery Searchlight Battalion  United States Army  "LET  THERE  BE  LIGHT" , 10-28-45.     narrative
 
 


  

 

Mr. Leo Bach was a bombardier on a B-17 flying a mission over Germany when attacked  by a squadron of German MP-109s and FW-190s.  The crew was forced to parachute.  He suffered leg and back injuries on landing.   He was captured 3 days later and was a POW for 1 year, 1 month and 1 day.  "Fifty miles southeast of Berlin, a Jew wandering around Germany. That scared the hell out of me."  He was awarded the Purple Heart 62 years later. 
CBS news   Air Force Link

Going Home: A POW's Journey Back from Germany  is being republished April 2006.

Leo Bach's email :  another * pov @ * comcat.net
                                remove  *  and spaces in above address

amazon.com  book description       Borders

Publisher: The Write Way Publishing Co.   2224 Pine Knoll Drive   Suite One   Walnut Creek, CA 94595
 
 


 

by Patrick Tillery, Pensacola, Florida

Unknown stories and forgotten places. WWII & Korean war Secrets. Personal stories of combat & home front.


 

My Uncle, Norval Muscavitch, 729th Navigation Training Squadron, graduated from Army-Air Forces Navigation School at Selman Field, Monroe, Louisiana in 1942.

 

  WW II  Books

Thunder Below   The Barb by Admiral Fluckey 

 

Going Solo by RAF Pilot  Roald Dahl

Pearl Harbor Remembered   Survivor's remembrances Going Home:  A POW's Journey Back from Germany by Leo Bach
WW II Oral Histories     
Historic Naval Ships   
WW II Oral Histories by Walter Johnston with WW II links  
   
   

 

 Visits

Wisconsin

USS Cobia  WW II Sub   Wisconsin Maritime Museum,  Manitowoc

Air Venture Museum, Oshkosh   Special Events

 California

RMS Queen Mary   Stayed on the ship that was my flight instructor's troop transport to Europe at Long Beach.  He flew 25 missions in the B-17 Boobie Trap.
 
Spruce Goose   Walked through the Howard Hughes plane when at Long Beach
S.S. Lane Victory   A fully operational WW II Victory Ship at San Pedro. 
Santa Catalina Island   near Los Angeles
Griffith Observatory   Griffith Park, Los Angeles
Star of India  BeachCalifornia.com   Maritime Museum, San Diego


Washington state

 
Museum of Flight   Space Needle 
 Seattle
 

 Fort Worden 
NW of Puget Sound near Port Townsend
Fort Worden State Park
 
      for Living Traditions Winter Wild Week 94
 

Ohio

USAF Museum   Airplane photos & descriptions from Dayton, Ohio

Hawaii

USS Arizona Memorial   Pearl Harbor

Kentucky

Kentucky Horse Park  Many horse breeds, performances, retired race horses

 
   


Visiting the
C-130 Hercules
5-31-3  Photo from Chuck

October 12, 2003
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Last Update 3-28-6