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On a separate note, Test Pilot George Welch is best remembered as one of only two fighter pilots to get airborne during the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. Flying a Curtiss P-40B Warhawk, he shot down three Aichi D3A “Val” dive bombers and one Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero fighter. 😎

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Capt. Walter C Irwin was a decorated combat veteran who flew 86 combat sorties in P-47s and earned a number of citations, including the Distinguished Flying Cross. He would eventually break a speed and altitude record in the F-104.

Spitfire pilots of No. 43 Squadron RAF keeping warm in their dispersal hut at Drem airfield, East Lothian.