“Our victory was swept under the rug.'
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“We weren't supposed to win it, according to them,” Harvey said. “But we won it. We came here to win, and we won.” Pilots of the 332nd Fighter Group pose for a photo after their win at the first-ever USAF Aerial Gunnery Competition in 1949. Harvey had one wish: for the 332nd Fighter Group to be officially recognized for winning the 1949 USAF First Aerial Gunnery Competition.“We realized quickly that we needed to tell people about this, and we needed to find a way to commemorate this win officially,” he said. “We immediately saw it as an opportunity to right this wrong after so many years.”
The plaque "is 73 years late," the statement said, but it will be "displayed prominently at the U.S. Air Force Weapons School forever."
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