Rarey Bird

John Martz | July 18th, 2005

The cartoon journals of George Rarey:

In 1942 my father, George Rarey, a young cartoonist and commercial artist, was drafted into the Army Air Corps. He flew a P-47 before he drove a car. During his service he kept a cartoon journal of the daily life of the fighter pilots. A few weeks after D-Day he was killed in combat over France.

  • Jerry Cox
    Just read the article in the Friends Journal of the Air Force Museum Vol. 25 No.4 Winter 2002/2003. I'm retired now and getting caught up on my reading. What a wonderful article, thank you for writing it. Member of the Air Force Museum Foundation, Inc. for 25 years and an Army Veteran.
  • Fascinating, and very sad.
  • Paul
    Very impressive. Clearly a talent, and taken from us far too young. This ones's bookmarked
  • wow, i just looked at every page. great stuff, it's hard to believe that guy found a piece of the plane 50yrs later.
  • Wow. What a great site. This one is getting bookmarked for sure.
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