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Letter to a Serviceman

December 1944

Gazette open letter from the Martinez War Finance Committee to Lieut. Frank Calicura, somewhere in the Eastern U.S., asking him to name his B-17 City of Martinez — The committee to Frank, somewhere in the Eastern U.S., awaiting assignment. They heard it from a brother who also flies. An $815,000 quota already overrun; another $350,000 would buy a B-17 named City of Martinez. They asked him to put that name on his, and to let the town adopt the whole ten or eleven of you. The men painted Spirit.Family collection · Zoom to read the handwriting

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Gazette open letter from the Martinez War Finance Committee to Lieut. Frank Calicura, somewhere in the Eastern U.S., asking him to name his B-17 City of Martinez

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Chapter 11Borrowed Aircraft

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More of Frank J. Calicura in the footlocker

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Family Collection. Letter to a Serviceman, December 1944. The Spirit of Martinez.

https://www.spiritofmartinez.com/archive/taylorletter

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