Brick is planning to meet with the brother of J. F. Kirwan (417th Pilot) in March to secure more information and be the speaker at the Palm Springs Air Museum.
Brick is planning to meet with the brother of J. F. Kirwan (417th Pilot) in March to secure more information and be the speaker at the Palm Springs Air Museum.
Brick,
Joe Van Laecken was Kirwan’s RO.
We would very much like to be a part of this and may be able to attend your March presentation.
Please let us know the details. Also, Joann may have a couple of stories about Kirwan from Joe.
Cheers,
Dan & Joann Whitney
Dan,
The Museum has asked to do a Beaufighters/night fighters presentation on Saturday, 28 March 2015. The Saturday prior, they want me to talk about F-4s since they have one of those in their collection and I did the F-4G Wild Weasel book.
It would be my pleasure/honor to meet you. Even better would be to collaborate on the presentation. I am still at the yahoo account if you want to talk there about the idea. I have not floated this with anyone, just came to me as I was reading this.
Great compliments and kudos to Rich and family for taking the night fighters into the 21st century with this site.
I may have the order of presentations backwards. Have to confirm with the Museum, but the dates are definitely the 21st and 28th of March 2015.