Correction to the Marley Post

See, something about living in the Inland Northwest morphed my memories regarding the Pontiac Catalina. For it seems that while Pappy Boyington is truly from around these parts, so much so that the Coeur d'Alene, Idaho airport was named after him, and that he did in fact spend some of his later years in and around Long Island, NY, it was NOT his car that I owned.

It turns out that with my brother's sharp-as-a-tack memory of all things WWII related, he pointed out to me that it was not maintenance receipts he found in the glove box of the Catalina, but receipts from the base liquor store, and it wasn't Pappy Boyington, but Col. Francis Gabreski, the highest scoring ace in the European Theater, who had been the previous owner of the vehicle.

Please accept this correction of the previously published errata. Thank you. The Auld Girl.