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	"1956 Armed Forces Day. The two stripes indicate it is a Flight Commanders aircraft."
	"Four new aircraft that have not yet been painted."
	"There were two identical signs like this, one on each end of the building. When I signed in to the squadron, in September of 1955 we had a C-45 and one T-33. There was no ops. building so we operated out of the alert hangar for a few months."
Courtesy of Jim Brazeel

09/07/2010

e-mail Sept. 10, 2010

Hi Bob,

I was surprised to see how well the slides came out, they brought back a lot of memories of days gone by.  You may remember that at one time early on, the F-86D was referred to as a 'North American time bomb with a GE fuse. My first assignment was to the 5th FIS at McGuire AFB. Between the 5th and the 2nd FIS's on base there, they lost eight aircraft and six pilots due to inflight explosions.

Jim