Iverson's Diggin Up Spokane

Lancaster tail gunner.

Harry Truman days before the mountain claimed his life, May 1980 at his Mount St. Helens Lodge. He is heading to his equipment shed/ boat storage building above his docks on the SW corner of Spirit Lake where it outflowed into the N Fork Toutle River. All of this is under hundreds of feet of volcanic debris and under Spirit Lake. He had one of the most beautiful properties on the lake and in the NW. Courtesy National Geographic. MSHB1980

F6F-3 Hellcat showing its ruggedness. This Hellcat flown by Butch O'Hare with over 200 bullet holes from combat was patched up and brought to the production plant to show the workers what they are building. Butch was awarded the medal of Honor 02/20/42 for shooting down five bombers attacking his carrier, he was shot down by a Japanese "Betty" bomber on 11/26/43 during the first night raid ever conducted by the US Navy from an aircraft carrier.

Highest Thunderbolt Ace "Gabby" Gebreski (28 kills) and his maintenance crew.
Without a great maintenance crew there would be no successful pilot! It's their airplane they just let the pilot fly it.