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Wwii Fighter Planes

A Grumman F6F-5 (s/n 71441) found at Yokosuka Naval Air Base near Toyko. The aircraft was flown by Charles V. AUGUST of VF-44 (USS Langley) when he was shot down and crash landed on Formosa. He became a POW of the Japanese on 4 January 1945. It was the second time that he had been shot down and made a POW, the first being as a POW of the Vichy French on 11 August 1942

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