[Milsurplus] Your Tax Dollars At Work, part nnnnnn

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I believe that P-39's were used on Guadalcanal, except maybe they called 
them something else.  A-something, perhaps.  

Robert Downs - Houston
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In a message dated 03/12/2017 19:44:31 PM Central Daylight Time, 
ka1kaq at gmail.com writes: 
> More recently I was chatting with a fellow in NC who has a car stored for 
> me. He came here from Oz and was into warbirds before the move (had to 
> sell his Spitfire project due to the move). He mentioned an island where 
> apparently, to this day, there are (I think) P-39 Airacobras sitting in crates 
> where they were unloaded. He said the island hopping campaign was moving so 
> fast in that area that they just left them behind. I'd never heard of them 
> being used in the Pacific, so I'll recheck his email. 
> 
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