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WWII fighter pilot from Marion honored for helping liberate France


The start of a life of service
DeFrancesco reflected upon the war years recently during a visit at his Marion County home.
DeFrancesco was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, on Jan. 29, 1924. His father, a World War I veteran, worked in the copper tubing industry. 
As a youth, DeFrancesco was fascinated by early helicopter prototypes he saw on test flights from the Sikorsky Aircraft company, located near his home. He built and flew model airplanes.
DeFrancesco joined the Army Air Corps in 1942 just after graduation from high school. His first flight was in an Aeronca, a small single-engine plane.
The Aeronca was fun; it sort of floated, said DeFrancesco.  ....

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Property round-up: Hawthorn, Admiral, Revere Pub Company


Greedy Gordons Group to open two pubs
Richard Gordon and Sonya Harvey, the co-owners of Northamptonshire-based Greedy Gordons Group who have run Punch pub the Red Lion at Cranford for the past four years, are poised to open two pubs, creating 60 new jobs.
The Pig & Waffle in Grafton Underwood, near Kettering – a private lease with Boughton Estates – will open in early June, while Grade II listed private lease the Snooty Fox in Lowick – acquired by the Greedy Gordons Group before the pandemic – will finally open its doors in early July. 
“Our focus at present is being able to finally welcome customers into our wonderful new pubs and continue to safely maximise trade at the Red Lion,” Gordan said. “But we have an appetite for opening further sites in Northamptonshire, including Northampton, when the time and opportunities are right.” ....

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The Reason for B-17 'Texas Raiders' One-Wheel Tribute!


By Kevin “K5” Michels, edited by Stephen Chapis
Texas Raiders, Kevin “K5” Michels recently submitted another excellent article that detailed the history behind the famous one-wheel pass performed by 
Texas Raiders at air shows across the country.
Donning his distinctive flat-brim straw hat, an otherwise non-descript elderly man would leave his home for a daily 5-mile walk, telling his beloved wife that he was “going out to chase girls”.  He would return four hours later.  Not because he was slow, but because the gregarious extrovert socialized with literally everyone along the way.  Known to all as “the Colonel”, he was a pillar of society in this seaside community of San Clemente, California. ....

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