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Paladin (Bob IN PA)    Posted 02-05-2009 at 05:11:47 [URL] [DELETE]        [Reply] [No Email]  
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  • I bought a book called "The Air War In Korea" at a local used book sale but I never expected it to be an addition to my Ford library. There are pics of aircraft operations on Navy aircraft carriers off the Korean coast, and, sure enough, there are Moto-Tugs on the carriers. In contrast to the WWII pics, these Moto-Tugs have had diagonal visibility stripes painted across their fronts (probably yellow and black, but the old pics are in black and white). Of course, camoflage was not an issue off the coast of Korea.

    I wonder how long the Moto-Tugs hung on with the USN and when the last of them was phased out of service? Korean service would keep them on active duty until at least 1954.

    I thyink that I may shoot an email off to the USN aviation museum in Pensacola and see if anyone has an answer.

    Tim Daley (MI)    Posted 02-28-2009 at 10:55:01 [URL] [DELETE]        [Reply] [No Email]  
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  • Hi Bob-
    I picked up this book at my local library abd started to read it after I flipped thur and looked at all the pictures. I did not see any with the Moto-Tugs you speak of so which page(s) might they be on? I will flip thru again only more closely...thanks.


    Tim Daley(MI)

    Brian Young    Posted 02-07-2009 at 04:34:00 [URL] [DELETE]        [Reply] [Email]  
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  • Bob, Where wold ya be in Pa.?

    Tim Daley(MI)    Posted 02-05-2009 at 05:12:48 [URL] [DELETE]        [Reply] [No Email]  
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  • Hey Paladin-

    Can you scan and post some pictures here? If not send them to me and I will take care of it. Also, post the ISBN of the book so I can look for it in my local library or try to find a copy on Amazon.

    Tim Daley(MI)

    *9N653I* & *8NI55I3*

    Paladin (Bob IN PA)    Posted 02-05-2009 at 05:13:12 [URL] [DELETE]        [Reply] [No Email]  
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  • Sorry, left the book at my hunting cabin in the mountains. Didn't get back up there till today.

    Air War Over Korea

    Author Robert Jackson

    Copyright 1973, Scribner's Sons

    ISBN 0-684-14193-0

    LC Catalog Number 74-19687

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