A Good Landing is One You Can Walk Away From

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NO, THIS IS NOT A SCENE FROM A MOVIE where the hero staggers away from a “good landing” on Mindoro, Philippine Islands, after being shot down by a Japanese Zero. It is an actual photo of Lt. S. F. Ford walking away from a virtually new Lockheed P-38L-5-LO Lightning that he crash-landed probably some time after January 1945. The lieutenant was almost surely newly assigned to combat in the Pacific, but with his plane on...

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