'It's A Piece Of History': Del City Man Recounts Stories From His Father's WWII Diary
“He was very proud of his service,” said Mars. Larry Mars had been a high school valedictorian when he dropped out of college to enlist in the Army Air Corp, two months after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Ron Mars also brags about the aircraft his father became a decorated fighter pilot in during World War II: the P-38. “I’d tell people, and they’d say ‘I didn’t know it could do that,'” said Ron Mars. Ron Mars loves to talk about the capabilities of the two engine fighter aircraft dubbed the Fork Tailed Devil. Turns out, the military didn’t know all the P-38 could do until pil...
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