Thanks Firemack,glad you got to go too! And RowdyRebel, great story about your grandpa. We had a good time, mowerman those were early Stearman PT-17 trainers. They were used by just about every U.S. pilot going through aviation cadet school back during WW2 and prior to WW2. They are very beautiful to look at.. to this day their lines are timeless. The Army colors were Blue and the Navy yellow. RowdyRebel, your story reminds me of my granpa too. That generation for reasons only known to them, never said much about their service to our country.My grandpa spent 24 yrs as an Army infantry officer. He retired a Lt. Colonel right before Vietnam. He was commissioned as an officer in 1939 as a second leutenant the year my Pop was born. He spent the entire WW2 campaign in the south Pacific including New Guinea of which I heard him tell my Pop, how brutal the Jungle Terrain was there. He never spoke of the Combat. He was awarded the Bronze Star 3 times and once for Valor, which one ribbon holds the "v" device, Military guys would know what I mean. He wasn't wounded until he fought in Korea with the 5th Regimental Combat Team in August 1950. He lost a real close friend by the name of Capt. Timmons of who I heard him mention once when I was real little. He and Capt. Timmons were shipped out together out of Hawaii with the 24th Inf Div when the war broke out, and were then assigned to the 5th RCT for Combat duty during the breakout of the Pusan perimeter. Grandpa passed away Dec 7th 1982. We were celebrating my birthday when I was a kid, when the Army hospital called