You are correct. Originally Chicago Air Park and then Chicago Municipal
Airport it was renamed to Midway after the Battle of Midway in 1949.
Chuck Norcutt
On 4/19/2014 1:12 AM, Chris Barker wrote:
> Thanks, Paul. It's a lovely old aircraft.
>
> I assume that Chicago's Midway has something to do with the Battle of Midway,
> so your photos caused me to look up the details of that battle in Wikipedia:
> it's a very interesting and exciting episode.
>
> Chris
>
> On 19 Apr 14, at 03:30, Paul Braun <pbraun42@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On our way out of Chicago Midway this past Monday, I stopped my friend
>> and we took a detour to the entrance of Concourse "A". I've seen the
>> plane hanging there numerous times, but never when I had the good camera
>> with me.
>>
>> http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=2905 First two photos
>
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