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"... The Wild Blue Yonder" This picture of a cadet standing beside a PT-17 was not otherwise identified. Between the sunglasses, earphones and the rest of the flying equipment it would be very hard to be sure of the cadet's identity. However, Ernie would have looked just like this. According to Col Bill DeBrocke, a classmate of Ernie's in company D-1 "I do remember feeling sorry for the flying cadets when, on a cold and dark night when we ground soldiers could relax after dinner, the flyers had to climb into those old sheepskin lined jackets and bus to Stewart Field for night flying. I did not envy them then and really do not know how they made it through academics."
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Image Description"... The Wild Blue Yonder" This picture of a cadet standing beside a PT-17 was not otherwise identified. Between the sunglasses, earphones and the rest of the flying equipment it would be very hard to be sure of the cadet's identity. However, Ernie would have looked just like this. According to Col Bill DeBrocke, a classmate of Ernie's in company D-1 "I do remember feeling sorry for the flying cadets when, on a cold and dark night when we ground soldiers could relax after dinner, the flyers had to climb into those old sheepskin lined jackets and bus to Stewart Field for night flying. I did not envy them then and really do not know how they made it through academics."