Grumman Wildcat

[R Leonard]

Been somewhat out of touch for a couple of days . . .

fsbofk -

I never really understood where the name “Ballston” came from . . . always thought it was just some developer’s affectation. I left town the day after graduation (June 1970) and, with the exception of summer visits with friends during college, never went back. I did call one of those friends regarding the panel and he informed me that I am a dolt, that the panel was briefly in the store as a background to an old Monogram F4F done up in VF-11 livery . . . a model I now vaguely recall.

I don’t think my father went to the 1992 Crystal City Midway fest, he did not go to may of those things. As far as I know he only went to symposia at NMNA in Pensacola a couple of times and the Nimitz museum at least once. The last one in which he participated was in Pensacola in 1998.


Pilot –

Marion E. Carl was an old family friend. His murder was a true tragedy. I bumped in to him a couple of times in the late 1960s and early 70’s. Long before I came on the scene, during a postwar tour at Patuxent NAS, Marion & Edna Carl had the apartment above my parents in the MOQs.


kurlannaiskos -

Jeez, I hope it is my monitor, because your blue grey has way, way too much grey and the light grey looks like, ummm, light brown.


Rich