A Flight of Four Mustangs Celebrates WWII Fighter Pilot’s 100th Birthday.
100-year-old WW2 veteran takes to the skies on TF-51 Mustang on his birthday
A special birthday celebration for Paul Crawford
I was invited by Moreno Aguiari to Film this Historic event. on March 19th 2024 Paul Crawford’s Flew out of PDK Airport 🛫 for his Birthday. best Epic way to Celebrate 100 years
Flying on P-51.
Mission accomplished! On Tuesday, March 19, World War II pilot Paul Crawford fulfilled his dream of flying in a P-51 Mustang like the one he commanded 79 years ago in China, where he flew 29 missions until he was shot down in 1945. Now 100, Buckhead resident Crawford was delighted when the Liberty Foundation and Inspire Aviation Foundation took him up in a TF-51D on a perfect blue-sky day for flying.
"There's nothing in the world like that airplane," Crawford said of his reunion with the P-51. "I loved doing the maneuvers again."
Inspire Aviation and the Liberty Foundation partnered to put on the event, where Crawford was joined by his son-in-law, friends, and members of the foundations.
here a little History from Paul Crawford WWII Fighter Pilot.
On his 29th mission, Mr. Crawford was shot down by ground fire while strafing a small railroad facility. After getting hit, he bailed out and was picked up by Chinese Communist guerillas. A few days earlier, one of his housemates had been shot down and captured by the Japanese who cut his head off and put it up on a gate post. After a 200-mile-long walk, chased by the Japanese a couple of times, yet still evading capture, Mr. Crawford ended up at a compound owned by a wealthy family. A few miles from the compound was an airstrip where the OSS (U.S. Office of Strategic Services) brought downed airmen out. After the flight, Mr. Crawford talked about his experience: “When I recall my time in World War II, I always start by saying, I was not a hero! I was just there! That is not false modesty because it is the way I have always felt. I flew the P-51 Mustang.”
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