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History Matters: 4th Fighter Group

Red River Radio | By Gary Joiner, Ph.D.
Published October 31, 2018 at 1:15 PM CDT
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P-51D of the 4th Fighter Group, 336th Fighter Squadron, 1944
United States Army Air Force
Dr. Gary Joiner
Credit Press Image / LSU Shreveport

Airs Tuesday, October 30, 2018, at 7:45 a.m. This week Commentator Gary Joiner looks back at the creation and heroics of the 4th Fighter Group during WW II.

History Matters is made possible in part by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities and Louisiana Cultural Vistas Magazine.

 

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Gary Joiner, Ph.D.
Gary Joiner is a cartographer and an associate professor of history at LSU in Shreveport. He is the author or editor of 12 books including “Shiloh and the Western Campaign of 1862,” “One Damn Blunder From Beginning to End: The Red River Campaign in 1864,” “Through the Howling Wilderness: The Red River Campaign and Union Failure in 1864,” “Red River Steamboats,” and “Mr. Lincoln's Brown Water Navy: Mississippi Squadron.”
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