Star Power – Big-screen names who have served

Charles “Buddy” Rogers learned to fly for his role in “Wings,” then served as a Navy ferry pilot during WW II flying everything from PBYs to Bearcats.

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The new F8F-1 Bearcat, fresh from Grumman’s plant on Long Island, New York, and making its first long cross-country hop, taxied in on the ramp and shut down as sailors shoved chocks under its main wheels. As the tired ferry pilot rolled back the fighter’s canopy, his ears were assaulted with the insistent and constant sounds of ringing church bells and car horns. President Truman had just announced that the Japanese had accepted unconditional surrender....

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