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75 year old Russian grandpa dancing an old traditional navy/sailors dance.

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Standing on the wing of his Republic P-47 Thunderbolt is 1st Lieutenant Edwin L. King of the 347th Fighter Squadron of the 350th Fighter Group based in Pisa, Italy.

While strafing enemy gun positions near Brescia, Italy, King’s P-47 Thunderbolt airplane was struck by enemy flack, which severed his main oil line. The leaking engine oil completely blacked out the canopy and covered the pilot and his parachute. Sitting in a growing puddle of oil, King flew his plane back to base and landed, returning home just before his engine froze. This photograph shows King on the wing of his plane, still covered in oil.

We can just see the emblem of the 347th FS on the nose. King, who had enlisted in the Army Air Force in Ohio the day after Pearl Harbor, survived the war with 125 missions completed. He went on to a career in corporate aviation, once flying for Walt Disney. He died last year at the age of 95 in Pinehurst, North Carolina, May 10, 2016.