Met a WWII Fighter Pilot tonight ***UPDATE

Getting to be less and less of these guys. I made "brownie points" with a guy one day, our boss's son was with me to do a bid on a system replacement, and I was there to see if I could fix the dead A/C. He had a Corsair (F4-U) model on his mantel and I asked if he flew em. He was a Marine pilot in WWII in the Pacific Island campaign.

I explained to the boss's son that there had been THREE Navy Corsairs, a biplane, (The old Vought O2U), the WWII and the jet powered "Corsair II" A7 we had at Miramar.

I guess he wasn't expecting that someone actually knew a little about this stuff. We had quite a conversation. Unfortunately, he passed on not too long afterwards from cancer.