Tuesday, April 09, 2013

Casa Grande, Arizona: This week in history, 4/9/13

 
Dispatch (1968)


SIXTY-ONE YEARS AGO THIS WEEK   A small-town pilot from Yankton, S.D., moved to Casa Grande to start a crop dusting service. At that time, Virgil Koenig was no stranger to flying — during World War II, he flew Corsairs over the South Pacific for the Marine Corps. After the war ended, Koenig played football for the University of Arizona. Later, he flew the F7F Tigercat fighter-bomber during the Korean War and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. After the war, Koenig operated crop dusting, aviation training and sales business for 17 years. 

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