AVG pilot passes.....

[Oldpilot]

Of course pilots wouldn't be able to fly if it wasn't for the efforts of the ground crew. You can see the most recent (i.e. June 1) list of survivors at the Annals of the Flying Tigers -- but note that the AVGs mostly joined from the prewar armed forces, and so are a couple years older on the average than most American veterans of WWII. Not including Pete Wright, here are two more AVGs whose death notices reached me since June 1:

* Allen Fritzke, a weatherman, formerly of Piscataway NJ, died in May 2006 in North Carolina.

* Edgar McClure, a crew chief who was commissioned in the navy in China after his AVG service, who went to flight school, and who became a fighter ace in the USN. He died last month in Abilene TX.

Blue skies! -- Dan Ford