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This 1943 photo provided by U.S. Army Air Forces shows John O’Neill's P-38 Lightning fighter at a U.S. airfield near the town of Dobodura in Papua New Guinea. His son Jon O’Neill flew 23 hours from Florida to the mountainous jungles of Papua New Guinea in the South Pacific in search of clues to the life of his war hero father whom he can barely remember. At times it has been a painful journey of discovery among the rusted relics entangled in undergrowth of a conflict that ended for his father, U.S. Army Air Forces 9th Fighter Squadron of the 49th Fighter Group ace John G. “Jump” O’Neill, 75 years ago. (Photo by U.S. Army Air Forces via AP Photo)
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