A light leak, visible in the lower right hand corner of the print, coupled with the use of a flash in daylight against white shirts, caused the NCOs to be overexposed ... however, it's a great photograph of Captain Stacy.

Captain Stacy had two air-to-air combat kills in Korea. The first was a Chinese MiG on Jan. 17, 1953, and the second coming on Feb. 21, 1953, of a Russian piloted MiG 15 ... unfortunately, this was a Russian squadron commander, and he was covered by their Ace pilot, Semen Alexeivich Fedorets, who promptly put a lot of holes in Stacy's F-86F.

[The Fedorets version of what happened next is that Stacy was forced to bail-out and interned as a POW for the duration (only 5 months left at that point). Colonel Thomas thinks that's bunk and said Stacy was never a POW. Korean war researcher, Joe Brennan, agrees, and notes Stacy does not appear in the known list of Sabre pilots who were POWs in Korea, while another researcher, Diego Fernando Zampini, says that "What seems out of the question is that Stacy was shot down that day by Fedorets." The Russian squadron commander that Stacy shot down also survived ... after a trip to the hospital ... but relinquished his squadron command to Fedorets.]

In Korea, Captain Stacy had been flying with the 335th FIS, of the 4th Air Wing, and that Wing (which was also comprised of the 334th FIS & 336th FIS) was assigned to Seymour Johnson AFB, and is STILL in residence there. During the '57-58 period the 4th changed from F-86s to F-100s (as many of you will recall). Captain Stacy had lots of buddies on base.