Reporting from San Marcos, Texas at the Central Texas wingg of the Commemorative Air Force, Wilmer visits with Joe Enzminger, wing leader followed by retired Naval pilot, Clint Epley who serves as executive officer and museum curator.
A sampler of the WWII war birds based at the museum includes a rare P-39Q Bell Airacobra, the B-25J “Yellow Rose” bomber, a C-45, an AT-6 Texan trainer and the legendary “That’s All Brother” the lead aircraft of more than 800 C-47’s that carried members of the 101st Airborne during the June 6, 1944 D-Day Invasion of France.
Come along and join Enzminger and Epley to learn the rest of the story of the Central Texas Commemorative Air Force based in a San Marcos, Texas WWII Army Air Force navigation school aircraft hangar built in 1943.
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