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Where's Bill?

We all know Bill is older than dirt. Thus far, extant photographs of his early days (aside from the Lascaux Cave Paintings and scattered petroglyphs) have been hard to find. Diligent surfing however, shows Bill in some refresher training some time ago...

Bill's Flying Circus

Bill the Pre-Rotorhead has been positively ID'd in this photo of aviation cadets taken in 1941.

If you can't make him out - try this one.

If you're hopelessly unable to pick him out - try this one.

If your screen resolution is that bad, your eyesight really sucks, you're too lazy to clean your glasses... whatever reason, okay, go here.

If you can't find him there - you don't drive, right?

More to follow over time as I run through this shoebox of pics.

11 Comments

Lots of time on your hands today, John.....?
 
Well, no, this actually didn't take that long... and besides, Bill's being a slug without the excuse Dusty has...
 
Are you sure, those defintely aren't Sopwith Camels off to the left!
 
Aside from color, monoplane design, spinner, and metal props... yeah, could be... 8^)
 
I don't see anyone being pushed in a baby carriage, so I maintain that Bill is not in any of these pictures. Actually the pics look like cartoons anyway.
 
mmmmm... Vultees!! My AT of choice...
 
I don't see any bags of mud in those pictures... *ducks and runs back into Jungle Room*
 
is it too much to ask that they at least learn how to march in step with each other???
 
is it too much to ask that they at least learn how to march in step with each other??? Ya gotta learn to *walk* in formation before you can *fly* in formation--that's why they're there. And probably why "my" face is beet red, since I'm the only one in step with the Jody Call...
 
And, MajMike - they're *aviators*. The answer is self-evident.
 
Aviators? Nope. Army Air Corps Junior Birdmen called themselves *pilots*--"Take off in the BT-13 and pile it here, pile it there"--continuing the tradition still observed today. Us *aviator* types hearken back to the Great War, when we decided that "aeronaut" was entirely too pretentious...
 
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