Stratotanker in a WW II P-38 Scheme
No, your eyes aren’t deceiving you: this Stratotanker the first to ever don a WW II scheme! This KC-135R of the 155th ARW in Lincoln, Nebraska is donned in a heritage scheme of one of the wing’s P-38s that was shot down over Germany in WW II. The Nebraska unit is friends with the 102-year-old veteran pilot, James K. Kunkle, and last year they took him on an honorary flight refueling F-15 Eagles with the...
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