> On Sep 1, 2017, at 5:13 PM, John <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 9/1/2017 09:20, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >> A friend on one of the forums posted this after I posted the airport photo. >> Things I never knew… >> >> http://airfactsjournal.com/2015/09/hpn-birds-eye-view-past-present/ >> > > He got some of it wrong though. The Air National Guard didn't exist > until 1947 (spun off from the Army at the same time the Army Air Corps > became the United States Air Force). An airport built in 1942 would have > been built for the Army Air Corps.
:-) That's like the "Foyle's War" series: The series runs through the years of WWII following the main character, Christopher Foyle, who has a position in the British police department system that didn't exist until 1949 .. So much for accuracy, eh? Good stories anyway. G — The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
