Some Pictures Harlan shared while a CAFDFW Member

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I caught this thread by Bob Womack late: https://www.milsurps.com/showthread.php?t=77621
I replied that Harlan and I were good friends, sometimes talking for hours on the phone covering everything from A-Z. At times he dealt with heavy depression because of family matters. If I could sway his thoughts towards his love of this forum, it's membership and the old planes he was devoted to I could hang up knowing he was doing better. He sent me many detailed pictures with most out of my wheel house of plane knowledge.

This is original nose art someone had the foresight to save when aircraft were being melted down after the end of WWII.
This exhibit is located at the CAF museum at Midland TX.










This one below was Harlan and his unit's pride and joy, a C-47/R4D. Not just a skin but a complete restored bird. They had a offer to appear at a large Air force show for good money with the stipulation the nose art had to be covered because the show was open to the public. They needed the money, so after deliberation they decided to take the offer. After several ideas of how to cover the nose art, Harlan remembered how some air crews covered theirs when it became mandatory. He called it
Defiant compliance and used red duct tape and a sharpie marker.



About 5~ years ago on the Douglas DC 3 web site they did a story about Harlan, the CAFDFW and R4D, I just happened to stumble upon it. All the pictures were taken by Harlan and all information on the planes history is from him.
Harlan is pictured in the 1st, 3rd picture he is the 1st guy on the left in flight suit and in the picture captioned: Rockport Crew July 4th 1999 his young son Tony has the red T shirt on with Harlan over his left shoulder with black hat.. black T shirt with some blue on the front.
Finding this article was a nice surprise. Memories of good people are like a gift.

This Confederate Air Force R4D-6S is "Ready For Duty"

http://www.douglasdc3.com/r4d/r4d.htm

Thanks for looking

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