Bluenoser Tales

Punchy Powell flew two combat tours with the 352nd Fighter Group — the Bluenosed Bastards of Bodney — in a Mustang with his home state painted on the nose: The West "by Gawd" Virginian. Then he spent the rest of his life collecting his friends' stories so they wouldn't be buried with them. He put them in a book, Bluenoser Tales, with more than four hundred photographs from the group's own archives. The book went out of print. Before he flew west in 2016, he left his son one charge: keep