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49th Fighter Group Lockheed P-38 Lighting Richard Bong

from SDASM Archives

  • Gerry Asher said:
    (L to R) 49th FG commander LTC George Walker, 9th Fighter Squadron commander MAJ Wally Jordan, Dick Bong and ?... might be Gerry Johnson?

Walker's Monument, Derry City, Co. Derry

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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  • Niall McAuley said:
    Built from 1826 to 1828, per the DIA
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Streetview of the now empty plinth. Another angle Bing bird's eye view
  • Niall McAuley said:
    The pillar was 90 feet in height surmounted by the statue of Rev. George Walker “of heroic size”(20 feet), with one hand outstretched towards the site of the river barrier/boom. Internally a spiral staircase of 105 steps (The Siege lasted 105 days – the longest in British History) allowed access to the viewing platform on top. The pillar and statue were destroyed by a bomb explosion in August 1973. Only the pedestal remains to this day. A 2010 story on the destruction of the pillar.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Ooh, dating info from that story: Originally, the left hand held a sword, but during a night of storm in the early part of this century the sword was blown down.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    And today, what's left of him.