1st Fighter Association Banquet
Saturday's Banquet at the Bayside Club

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Hershel Baird, our MC for the evening (photo by SSgt Lynnita Cotten)
Hersh and Vrilakas
The honor guard greets the banquet attendees (photo by SSgt Lynnita Cotten)
71st Table: (facing camera, clockwise) Janis & Brooks Hatch, Ralph DeSutter, PE MacAllister, granddaughter Cooper, Dorris Cooper, Roady and Vince Rethman (photo by SSgt Cotten)
Col Miller, the keynote speaker (photo by SSgt Lynnita Cotten)
 Jim Graham and Mary Hansen
Arrival of the Colors (photo by SSgt Lynnita Cotten)
 Mouse Fredricy's family
Hersch and Pete Bartos
Jim Dibble presents Col Miller with fragments from his father's P-38 crash site and pictures of the Lt James Dibble memorial dedication in Italy (Major Brad "Nodak" Franklin in back, coordinator of the evening's events) (photo by SSgt Lynnita Cotten)
The Vocalist, SMSgt Taylor (photo by SSgt Lynnita Cotten)
The Jazz Ensemble entertains us with lively Glenn Miller tunes (photo by SSgt Cotten)
The "Rhythm in Blue" band provided fabulous entertainment with outstanding renditions of several Glenn Miller hit tunes from the 1940s. Everyone's feet were tapping to the big band sounds and the wonderful vocals that evening!
Frank Lawson requests an autograph or a phone number
The band's piano player
The Band in WWII khaki
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