“Static Line”
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On 7 January 2021, I ran a post about the L-4 Grasshopper, the plane that most think of as a Piper Cub. This note was included…
“While some of the men were confined to fighting up in the mountains, the division’s newspaper called the Static Line, used a piper cub plane to drop bundles of the publication down to the men. This was the only news of the outside world that the troopers could receive. One day, a roll of the papers was dropped with a note attached addressing it: “To the girls, with the compliments of Art Mosley and Jack Keil, Phone Glider 3.” It was discovered later that the WAC camp received the roll meant for the 11th airborne.”
I located an issue of “Static Line” on the internet and wanted to share it. News included kept the men up to date on…
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