VoyForums
[ Show ]
Support VoyForums
[ Shrink ]
VoyForums Announcement: Programming and providing support for this service has been a labor of love since 1997. We are one of the few services online who values our users' privacy, and have never sold your information. We have even fought hard to defend your privacy in legal cases; however, we've done it with almost no financial support -- paying out of pocket to continue providing the service. Due to the issues imposed on us by advertisers, we also stopped hosting most ads on the forums many years ago. We hope you appreciate our efforts.

Show your support by donating any amount. (Note: We are still technically a for-profit company, so your contribution is not tax-deductible.) PayPal Acct: Feedback:

Donate to VoyForums (PayPal):

Login ] [ Contact Forum Admin ] [ Main index ] [ Post a new message ] [ Search | Check update time | Archives: 12[3]45678 ]


[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Date Posted: 10:07:26 12/16/07 Sun
Author: Barbara Borsodi Gilbert
Subject: Re: 86th Commanche Patch

In one of the scrap books of my father, Fred Borsodi, I have what may be the original drawing of the 86th Fighter Squadron Commanche Patch. A reproduction of that drawing is in an article on my father in the AAHS Journal, (American Aviation Historical Society Journal, volume 41 number 2 Summer 1996) with some interesting accounts of the exploits of the 86th Squadron in North Africa. In the fall of 1943, when the men reached Italy, some of the men in that squadron, including my father who was the CO at that time, captured and repaired a German plane, a Ju 88, renamed the "Comanche". Later, in October, 1943 my father flew the "Comanche" back to the states. Fred was killed January 28th, 1945 testpiloting the YP80 Shooting Star, one of the first US jets, in England, a month after I was born. -Barbara Borsodi Gilbert

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Post a message:
This forum requires an account to post.
[ Create Account ]
[ Login ]
[ Contact Forum Admin ]


Forum timezone: GMT-8
VF Version: 3.00b, ConfDB:
Before posting please read our privacy policy.
VoyForums(tm) is a Free Service from Voyager Info-Systems.
Copyright © 1998-2019 Voyager Info-Systems. All Rights Reserved.