ROBERT HUFFSTUTTER says:
::: CRASHED and Found! P-40!! 70 Years Later!!!
CANADIAN WW II ACE, "Stocky Edwards" predesessorly marked aircraft…flown first by an RAF pilot has just been found, last month (March 2012), 70 years later, in the North African desert of Al Wadi al Jadid.
Remarkably intact, the fighter-plane came down "power on" (the propeller is seen in the foreground, blades bent backward) back in 1942. Right now little is known of the RAF airman who crash landed the Kittyhawk seven decades ago.
Presently, Vintage Wings of Canada flies a P-40 painted up in Stocky's desert campaign colours, in honour of Canada's wartime hero. Stocky's Kittyhawk "K" version aircraft with the "B H S" marking replaced the downed in the desert Kittyhawk "D" version aircraft seen in the recent crash photo.
Born in Nokomis, Saskatchewan, James Francis "Stocky" Edwards, CM, DFC & Bar, DFM, CD was Canada's highest scoring ace in the Western Desert Campaign of WW II.
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