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[Helldiver]

Yesterday I showed Butch Voris in his F8-F. Today it's a Frenchman called Yves Leroy. You can see he fills out the cockpit. A lot.
For some reason he's wearing a plastic cap. Real men only wear a canvas helmet in a Bearcat. Right?
Also the ship appears to be loaded with digs and scratches. That would never happen in the U.S. Navy without some leading chief having his boot up somebody's tail.

[fliger747]

The jet age, which the F8F shared, ushered in the "crash helmets". Now we are down the slippery slope to bike helmets and training wheels.

Cheers: t.

[bearcat241]

Uhh...are we missing a couple of attached pictures here? I'd like to see that Frenchman's cap...and the digs and scratches too.

[Panther_99FS]

Uhh...are we missing a couple of attached pictures here? I'd like to see that Frenchman's cap...and the digs and scratches too.

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[bearcat241]

Oh yeah...i've seen that one. Yup that's a pretty dinged-up bird there; not much concern for cosmetics LOL; definitely a land-based squadron in the IC front. Shot down fighting the viet minh...

[TARPSBird]

LT LeRoy's helmet looks kinda like the ones you see the drivers wearing in old NASCAR videos from the 1950's.