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Bill worked with the pup and before
Jeep
Thinking about Veterans Day com- long Jeep, as he called him, became
ing up on Nov. 11, I would like to step a strange lap dog in a military man’s
away from the local aviation history and world.
just share the story of a couple of World
War II veteran aviators that have a very Training over, orders came and Bill
unique story. was being sent to England with the other
I hope you enjoy this and that it will pilots on the Queen Elizabeth. Jeep was
bring a smile to your face, and by all not going to be left behind so with a little
means don’t try this nowadays or your GI ingenuity a gas mask bag with holes
QHLJKERUVDQGFRPPDQGLQJRI¿FHUVZLOO cut in it became a hiding place for the
not look kindly on you! little Coyote pup! Once on ship it did not
Bill Crump flew more than 25,000 take long for the word to get around that
hours in his life but none where quite a Coyote was on board and it worked out
like his time In Europe as a P-47 Fighter good for Bill and his other bunkmates as
Pilot. every girl on the ship wanted to come by
Part of the 356th Fighter Squadron in and see Jeep!
England his story started with a close
friend when he was in gunnery training One day while he was sleeping he
out in the desert when a local farmer heard a noise and popped up to see the
ÀDJJHGKLPGRZQFRPLQJEDFNRQHGD\ tallest, meanest-looking bird colonel
wondering if Bill could use the 50 cals to he’d ever seen in his life. He was Army
thin out the local Coyote population that not Air Corps and had worked on two
was visiting his chicken coops at night! tours of combat. When he came in ev-
Bill said that was out of the question but erybody popped to stiff attention. He
KHDVNHGDERXWWKHFKDQFHRI¿QGLQJD walked down the line. He knew I had
Coyote pup for he always wanted to see the Coyote, so I stepped forward. He said
if he could domesticate one . The farmer “Let me see the damn thing.”
took him to a den and, in short order, he
picked out a funny looking bowlegged I reached down and grabbed the chain
pup and set about his project much to the and pulled Jeep up and sat him in my
arms and went back to attention. I no-
ticed he wouldn’t approached me to
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