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    ....I know,this is not direct air race.
    but please try to imagine the sight.

    ...after having their LST damaged and in tow from
    Lingayen Gulf to Leyte, (Philipines 1944)

    My dad was on deck watch, when from astern
    came a pair of Marine (?) Corsairs,
    who promply split the ship and passed within
    a couple wingspans of the sides of the LST.

    Dad states he was looking down onto the one passing on the starboard side.
    (about 1/3 loaded,that LST deck is less than 30 feet from water surface!)

    Help me with math now;

    30ft height of deck
    13ft+ dia prop,
    water surface at 0ft
    low enough to look down on
    that, is a close pass!

    ....no need to ask where some of his love of air racing comes from.
    Mayday51
    Jim Gallagher
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