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For sale BILL KELSO A-2 JACKET RUSSET BROWN HH 46R

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Ah yes...Wild Bill

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Capt. William Belushi Kelso USAAC (1909-?1942).
Commissioned 1932 at Randolph Field, Texas, last in his class, thanks to bribing instructors with bootleg "whiskey" from base hospital.
Assigned to navigator duty with 7th Bomb Group, March Field, Calif., 1935. Reassigned when goodwill flight to Chile ended up in the Yukon.
Types of aircraft wrecked include A-12, A-17, A-18, B-7, B-10, B-18, C-4, C-39, O-19, O-38, PT-13, P-12, P-26, P-35, P-36, P-40.
Disappeared on ferry flight to New Guinea, last radio message: "JAAAAAAAAAPS!!!11!!1!!"
 

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