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WWII legendary ace’s aircraft lore alive and well in 12th FTW, 39th FTS

The 39th Flying Training Squadron’s T-6 flagship aircraft sits on the flightline at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, Texas. To celebrate the 39th’s legendary WWII history, the squadron’s operational host - the 12th Flying Training Wing - painted the aircraft in the historic scheme of the P-51 “Little Girl” flown during WWII by Capt. Leroy Grosshuesch, commander of the then-designated 39th Fighter Squadron, during his single-handed attack on a Japanese destroyer off Goto Retto near Kyushu, Japan in 1945. The 39th Flying Training Squadron was activated as the 39th Pursuit Squadron in 1940, redesignated as the 39th FTS in 1999 and subsequently activated in the Reserve component in 2001. (U.S. Air Force photo)

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