Jack of Harts

Marine Aviation Group 41 was a reserve unit with six squadrons when The War began. We had the Devil Dogs, Cowboys, Rangers, Flying Nightmares, Moonlight, and Desperados. Each squadron was assigned different craft and had different missions. It was all on paper of course. Budget cutbacks had taken the entire group off the flight lines, and only a bare number of retired personnel maintained half-century-old craft to kept them ready for a war few people thought would happen. Then The War started and they had to recruit new pilots for the entire aviation group. That is how I first became a Cowboy.