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Tuesday, Anno and 1 visited.the U.S. Army Aviation Museum in I oil Rucker, Alabama, the only one in the country. The display of Pop?s photo, breast and sleeve insignia, and a written explanation thereof is prominently posted in the World War I area, which includes Curtiss Jennys, a German lokker, a Bleriot monoplane and other WW1 aircraft..
Pop?s is the only display the museum could put togethe that includes a picture of a WWI pilot and his name and actual personal insignia.
The museum curator asked me to find out what aircraft Pop used to teach pursuit pilots, a Spad or a Jenny. On the Internet, 1 learned that March field (in Riverside, California), constructed in t918, and where WWI flight instruction took place, also has an air museum. Yesterday I spoke with that museum?s director, and he informed me that the Curtiss Jenny was the airplane Pop used. The director asked me to provide him a copy of Pop?s display for the March field Museum, recognizing that his and the other instructors? work was the very first activity that took place at March Field, and that indeed, pursuit pilot instruction was the very purpose of constructing the Held.


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