get the snafu

[Jonathan Lighter]

Foo fighters evidently didn't appear till '44, in the AAF, and not commonly
then. HDAS I reveals all.

"Smoky Stover" is the strip in question.

JL


On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 8:53 PM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:

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