John 'Paddy' Hemingway,

Last Survivor of Battle of Britain's 'Few'

The passing of retired Group Captain John "Paddy" Hemingway at age 105 on March 17 in a Dublin nursing home means the Battle of Britain is no longer in the living memory of the "Few" Royal Air Force (RAF) pilots who defeated Germany's air assault on Britain in 1940. Hemingway was the last surviving member of that small but famous group.

In May 2020, he became the last of the “Few” after Flight Lieutenant Terry Clark died at age 101 on the eve of the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe (VE) Day, the Irish Times reported.

Before the Battle of Britain, Hemingway flew in the Battle of France where he downed a Heinkel He-111 and, the following day, a Dornier Do-17, both twin-engine bombers. In that second fight, his plane was hit by ground fire and had to make a forced landing. During the Battle of Britain, in August 1940, he was forced to bail out twice. He later had to bail out three additional times.

"He never saw his role in the Battle of Britain as anything other than doing the job he was trained to do," the RAF said in announcing his passing.

Asked by the Irish Times at his 100th birthday why he thought he had had such a long life, he said, "...just good luck, because I got shot down a few times and I crashed a few times, things like that."

Story Credit: Rich Tuttle

Photo Credit: Royal Air Force

Victory in Europe (V-E) Day: 80 Years Ago

On May 8, 1945, 80 years ago this May, Allied forces of the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and the Soviet Union forced the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany. The following day, May 9, citizens around the world celebrated the news of Victory in Europe (VE) Day. The German High Command surrendered unconditionally all land, sea, and air forces at Reims, France. General of the Army Dwight David Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, said, "The mission of this Allied force was fulfilled at 0241 local time, May 7, 1945." American GI’s in Europe and their families at home experienced both jubilation and relief.

In the air, the U.S. Army Air Forces’ 8th Air Force conducted its last combat mission on April 25, 1945. Nearly 600 bombers and 500 fighters attacked airfields and rail targets in Southeast Germany and in Czechoslovakia. Two weeks before peace came, six Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bombers were lost, four were damaged beyond repair, and 180 damaged. Twenty Consolidated B-24 Liberator bombers were also damaged. Nine airmen were wounded and 42 were declared missing.

Many debated the effectiveness of bombing Germany’s industry and infrastructure and questioned whether or not the bombing had a significant impact on the war. However, according to the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey, an expert study group assembled to assess the contribution of strategic air power in Germany’s defeat, Allied air power was decisive. It made the Normandy invasion possible and brought the German economy to virtual collapse. German Armaments Minister Albert Speer said strategic bombing created a “Third Front” and that “without this great drain on our manpower, logistics, and weapons, we might have knocked Russia out of the war before your invasion of France.”

Three powerful air forces -- the U.S. 8th and 15th Air Forces, and the Royal Air Force’s (RAF) Bomber Command -- formed the Combined Bomber Offensive that progressively crushed Germany’s ability to fight, the U.S. doing so by day and the RAF by night.

The 8th Air Force, from August 1942, conducted the daylight bombing campaign from England against German-occupied Europe. After initial high losses of unescorted bombers, the 8th became the largest air armada in the world, capable of sending more than 2,000 heavy bombers and over 1,000 fighter escorts on a single mission. Its bomber streams were sometimes 80 miles long. In total, the 8th flew half a million bomber sorties to drop 700,000 tons of bombs. But the 8th’s young flyers suffered 48,000 casualties including 27,000 dead, and more than 5,000 8th AF aircraft were lost.

The 15th Air Force, in the 18 months of its existence operating from southern Italy, destroyed German gasoline production and crippled the enemy’s transportation system over half of Europe. The 15th dropped 300,000 tons of bombs on enemy targets, with its combat crews flying 150,000 bomber sorties and 87,732 fighter sorties against the enemy.

RAF Bomber Command played a key role in the bombing of Germany beginning in 1939. In total, it flew 501,536 operational sorties, dropped two billion pounds of bombs, and lost 8,325 aircraft in action. Bomber Command lost 55,573 aircrew killed, 8,403 wounded, and 9,838 became prisoners of war.

One of the lesser known “bombing” missions also took place in the closing days of the European war when American and British bombers dropped food rations and supplies to the Dutch people of the Netherlands. The Netherlands was stricken with a famine that, paired with a lack of heating fuel, led to an estimated 20,000 civilian deaths. With only half of the country liberated, many also suffered from continued occupation by German forces. The Allies negotiated with German forces in the Netherlands for the relief missions, and they were accomplished without significant problems. From April 29 through VE-Day, 5,500 sorties dropped 10,000 tons of food on the starving and grateful Dutch.

One who benefited from the “bombing missions” was a malnourished teenager who later adopted the stage name of Audrey Hepburn. She went on to become the star of several movies of the 1950s and '60s and was awarded the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom for humanitarian work in her later years.

On May 8, as the war in Europe ended, the war in the Pacific was far from over. From April through June 1945 the Battle for Okinawa raged with U.S. Navy, Marine and Army combat units enduring the bloodiest battle of the Pacific war. Kamikaze suicide pilots damaged 400 Allied, mostly U.S., vessels. Okinawa provided a fleet anchorage, troop staging areas, and airfields close to Japan that were to participate in the expected coming invasion of Japan. The use of atomic weapons precluded the invasion and brought the war in the Pacific to a rapid end when the emperor announced Japan’s surrender on August 15, 1945. 

Story Credit: Rich Tuttle and Museum Curator & Historian Gene Pfeffer

V-E Day Exhibit

See the Museum's special exhibit about the 80th anniversary of VE Day in World War II, May 8, 1945. Germany surrendered in the West on that day. The exhibit focuses on the role of strategic airpower in the defeat of Germany. It includes several items, including this photo of a Royal Air Force Lancaster crew after a night mission to Germany. 

Story Credit: Rich Tuttle

P-51D Mustang Visits WestPac for Propeller Work

P-51D Mustang 'Stang Evil arrived March 31 at the WestPac facility on the campus of the museum at Colorado Springs Airport for propeller work. The plane is owned and flown by Mark Bingham of Lakewood, Colorado.

It was manufactured in January 1945 at the Dallas, Texas, plant of North American Aviation and accepted by the U.S. Army Air Forces in July of 1945. It served at 11 military bases across the U.S., primarily with the Air National Guard. Three of those assignments were to Buckley Air Force Base in Aurora, Colorado, with the 120th Fighter Squadron.

The plane was decommissioned by the Air Force in Sacramento, California, and auctioned off in 1958 to Frank Tallman of the Tallmantz Museum in Los Angeles. It was featured in the 1960 movie "Wake Me When It's Over" starring Ernie Kovacs. The Mustang escorted bombers, often on long range missions, which were sometimes called "wake me when it's

over" missions.

During its stay at Tallmantz, it was regularly flown by a number of aviation greats, including Tallman himself, Art Scholl, and Jim Appleby. It went through several civilian owners and was acquired by Mark Bingham in December 2013, bearing the civil registration number

N11636.

Story Credit: Rich Tuttle

Battle of the Bismarck Sea

Eighty-two years ago, in one of the great battles of the early Pacific war, Allied air power carried the day. Beginning in the spring of 1942, Japanese forces captured several areas on the north coast of New Guinea. The Bismarck Sea, the part of the Pacific Ocean between the Japanese fortresses at Rabaul and New Guinea, was the center of Japan’s vital supply routes to their forces.

The Battle of the Bismarck Sea, which was fought March 2-4, 1943, pitted aircraft of the U.S. 5th Air Force and the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) against a large Japanese convoy carrying 7,000 troops and supplies to northern New Guinea.

The convoy started at Rabaul on February 28th and planned to pass through the Bismarck Sea to New Guinea. It included eight destroyers and eight troop transports escorted by about 100 fighter aircraft.

Allied air attacks on the convoy started on March 2 with U.S. Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses and Consolidated B-24 Liberators until the ships were within range of North American B-25 Mitchell bombers. U.S. B-25s attacked at low level with machine guns and skip-bombing techniques. Behind them came Australian low-level Douglas A-20 Havoc light bombers, while Australian Bristol Beaufighters attacked at mast level with their 20mm cannons and machine guns targeting the warships’ guns, bridges and crews. Lockheed P-38 Lightning fighters provided air cover for the bombers.

The battle was a disaster for the Japanese, with eight transports and four destroyers sunk. Of the 7,000 troops headed to New Guinea, only 1,200 made it. The Allies lost ten aircrew members in combat while three others died in an accident. The Battle of the Bismarck Sea, a major air power victory, was critical to the liberation of New Guinea.

Story Credit: Colonel Gene Pfeffer (USAF-retired), Museum Curator and Historian

Watch the Special Historical Presentation

"Zemke's Wolfpack" On Our YouTube Channel!

The famous 56th Fighter Group was one of the premier fighter groups in all of Europe during World War II. From its first operational mission on April 13, 1943, through the end of the war in Europe, it scored 677 German aircraft destroyed in air-to-air combat -- the second-highest among U.S. Army Air Forces (USAAF) fighter groups in the European Theater, the highest of all Eighth Air Force groups, and the highest among all P-47 Thunderbolt-equipped groups of the USAAF.

Colonel Hubert "Hub” Zemke, a fearless and highly respected leader, was the first commander of the 56th. He devised the "Zemke fan" tactic to enhance the flexibility of fighters escorting bombers, where instead of flying close escort the fighter group would rendezvous at an easily found landmark from which it would break up into squadrons and fan out, maintaining contact to respond to attacks on the bombers.

The 56th called itself "Zemke's Wolfpack".

Former Air Force officer and current museum docent Matt Ouding tells us about the 56th Fighter Group and personal stories of some of its most famous members.

Former Air Force officer and current museum docent Matt Ouding tells us about the 56th Fighter Group and personal stories of some of its most famous members. Click here to watch Matt's presentation: Zemke's Wolf Pack Presentation on YouTube.

Mary Dee Weigel Named Volunteer of the First Quarter

Mary Dee Weigel was honored as museum Volunteer of the First Quarter, and Steve Clark was recognized as he departed as Coordinator of Volunteers. Both were feted at an April 5 luncheon in the museum's Hangar 1A.

MaryDee has been at the museum since October of 2020. She got her pilot's license in 1977. "Some favorites I have flown," she said, are "Piper Cub, Stearman, Citabria, Starduster, Great Lakes and Learjet, among others."

"Love the job" as a volunteer, she said, "the people I work with, and the customers. Everyone should retire and start volunteering on something they absolutely love."

Steve, who has been with the museum for 12 years, said he's ready to spend more time with his grandkids.

Story and Photo Credit: Rich Tuttle

The Doolittle Doctor

Editor’s note: The Doolittle Raid of April 18, 1942, was the first American air attack on Japan since its attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Eighty crewmen aboard 16 B-25 Mitchell medium bombers, similar to the Museum's B-25J "In The Mood," were launched from the USS Hornet aircraft carrier. The mission was planned and led by world-famous aviator and reserve U.S. Army Air Forces pilot Lieutenant Colonel James "Jimmy" Doolittle.

The following story originally ran in the April 2021 edition of the newsletter. The story of the famous 1942 Doolittle raid on Japan has been told many times, but not often from a physician’s point of view. One of our docents, David G. Schall, a former Air Force flight surgeon, gave us that perspective and more in a 2021 presentation at the Museum.

The presentation included a demostration flight of the Museum’s North American B-25J Mitchell medium bomber, “In The Mood.”

Eighty crewmen flew sixteen B-25s from the carrier USS Hornet to hit Japan on April 18, 1942. The mission, planned and led by world-famous aviator and reserve Army Air Forces pilot Lieutenant Colonel James “Jimmy” Doolittle, was the first strike against Japan since its attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941.

The strike did little damage but gave American morale a huge boost during dark days. It also had a huge effect on Japanese military planning, forcing Japan to devote more resources to its own defense, and to redouble its efforts to eliminate American aircraft carriers. Its focus on carriers, which were not berthed at Pearl Harbor during the attack and thus were not struck, led to the Battle of Midway in June 1942. Japan lost four large carriers and a significant number of its experienced naval aircrews during that engagement, opening the door to ultimate American and Allied victory in the Pacific.

When docent Dave Schall -- now retired after 37 years in the U.S. Air Force with a longtime interest in World War II aviation -- learned that a flight surgeon was one of the crewmen on the Doolittle mission, he thought, "We should know more about this guy."

The doctor, he said, was Lieutenant Thomas Robert "Bob" White. White wanted to go as a flight surgeon, but had to train as a gunner so he wouldn’t add more weight. His sharp eye made him the second-best gunner in the group. Before the raid, he helped with injections and prepared the crews to care for any wounds they might receive.

White had a couple of reasons to volunteer for the revenge mission, Schall said. He was born in Maui, Hawaii, not far from Pearl Harbor. And one of his friends in the December 1941 graduating class of the Army Air Corps' School of Aviation Medicine at Randolph Field, San Antonio, Texas, was Dr. William R. Schick, who was killed during the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Schall explained that Schick was aboard the second of ten B-17 bombers that happened to arrive at Pearl Harbor from California as the Japanese attack was underway. Japanese fighters jumped Schick's plane, and Schick was struck by a ricocheting bullet. The burning B-17 landed hard, breaking in half.

All crew members got out. Some, including Schick, ran for an open field, where they were strafed. Schick was hit in the neck by another ricochet. He made his way to the hospital and offered to help in the chaos. But, Schall said, he died, becoming the first American flight surgeon killed in World War II.

The USS Hornet, with Doolittle’s B-25s aboard, departed San Francisco on April 2, 1942. The official story, as it passed beneath the Golden Gate Bridge, was that it was ferrying the B-25s to Hawaii. After a couple of days at sea, its real mission was announced.

Doc White could pick the pilot he wanted to fly with, and he chose, apparently not by chance, Lieutenant Donald G. Smith of Crew Number 15. Smith consistently made the shortest takeoffs while training at Eglin Field, Florida – a handy skill to have when taking off from an aircraft carrier.

Smith’s plane was stationed well aft on the Hornet's deck as it sailed west. During one routine check, metal fragments were found in the oil of one of the engines. It was removed, inspected, and remounted. A test flight would normally have followed but, Schall said, "their test flight was the mission."

Doolittle's plan was to launch 500 miles or so from Japan. They would strike several targets, including Tokyo, at about sunset, then proceed to China, landing at about dawn. They would then conduct attacks on Japanese forces in China.

But the Hornet and other ships in the task force were spotted some 700 miles away from Japan, meaning fuel would be a problem. To help solve it, the crews used portable jerry cans of extra gas.

The Hornet turned immediately into the wind and ran up to top speed, increasing the velocity of wind over the deck to assist takeoffs. The B-25s were quickly launched, with Doolittle going first. He was airborne in only 467 feet, inspiring the other crews. All took off within an hour, but not without incident.

Lieutenant Ted W. Lawson, pilot of Crew Number 7, had his flaps down in preparation for takeoff. But he retracted them, fearing the plane might be moved by the high wind as the plane waited to taxi into takeoff position. When the takeoff signal came, he took off, but he’d forgotten to lower the flaps. He barely made it.

The plexiglass nose of Crew Numner 16's B-25, piloted by Lieutenant William G. Farrow, was cracked when the plane ahead of him rolled backwards. Then a sailor helping with the takeoff slipped on the wet, pitching, windy deck and fell into one of the plane's two whirling propellers. He lost an arm but survived the war. Farrow's plane was the last to take off. He must have wondered what else could go wrong. Schall said he would soon find out.

All the B-25s made it to Japan and dropped their bombs in broad daylight, with Doc White's B-25 attacking the Japanese port city of Kobe. None of the planes were hit by Japanese fire. All made it to China with nearly empty tanks, all crashing in the dark, with many crews parachuting to the ground.

Ted Lawson decided to put his plane down on a beach, but a huge wave during landing threw him and co-pilot Lieutenant Dean Davenport through the plexiglass windshield, still strapped to their seats, Schall said, with Lawson suffering a grievous leg injury. Navigator Lieutenant Charles L. McClure, kneeling between the two pilots, dislocated both shoulders, backwards. Nose-gunner Sergeant David J. Thatcher sustained a skull fracture.

After going through the windshield, Lawson and McClure were able to unbuckle their seat belts. Thatcher saw them in the surf and dragged them out of the water. Friendly Chinese happened along to evacuate all the men.

Doc White's plane crashed relatively nearby; he subsequently helped Lawson’s crew evade the Japanese.

Conditions were primitive, but he saved Lawson’s life using 1890's surgical equipment to perform a leg amputation in the field. He also transfused him with two units of his own O-blood. White stayed with Lawson during a grueling two-month-long journey to Walter Reed hospital in Washington, D.C.

Most of the 80 Raiders made it back to the U.S., but two of the sixteen five-man crews were captured; one was that of Lieutenant Farrow. He’d carefully leaned his fuel to fly the farthest of all the crews – but came down at a Japanese railroad station. Farrow and his gunner, Sergeant Harold A. Spatz, were executed; the other three crew members were imprisoned under harsh conditions but survived the war.

The pilot of the second captured crew, Lieutenant Dean E. Hallmark, was executed. Schall said Hallmark’s copilot, Lieutenant Robert J. Meder, died in prison of dysentery, an infection of the intestines. Two other men drowned. Lieutenant Chase J. Nielsen, Hallmark’s navigator, was the only survivor of this crew.

Attending Schall’s presentation was Jimmy Bower, son of William M. Bower, pilot of Crew Number 12. Jimmy, named for Jimmy Doolittle, carried a copy of the Congressional Gold Medal that was given to the Raiders in 2015.

Schall said Doolittle thought he would be court-martialed because he lost all his planes, but he received the Medal of Honor and was promoted to Brigadier General. All 80 Raiders received the Distinguished Flying Cross, and some the Purple Heart. Two also received the Silver Star – David Thatcher and Doc White. Thatcher passed away in 2016, while White died in 1992 at the age of 83.

Two World War II veterans, Les Frey and Ed Beck, attended the presentation. Frey flew B-25s, while Beck was captured during the Battle of the Bulge. But, he said, “I made it through.”

Story credit: Rich Tuttle

Eagles in RAF Feathers

This print, "Eagles in RAF Feathers" by David Poole, is on display in the museum. It shows Hawker Hurricanes of the Royal Air Force's 121 (Eagle) Squadron off the southern coast of England. The squadron was one of three RAF Eagle squadrons manned by Americans; the others were 71 Squadron and 133 Squadron.

In September 1942, Pilot Wilson "Bill" Edwards and many other Eagle pilots transferred to the U.S. Army Air Forces as part of the newly formed 4th Fighter group. After several other assignments, Edwards rejoined the 4th FG in June 1944 flying P-51Ds. 

During a mission to Munich on July 13, 1944, his P-51 44-13608 was hit by German anti-aircraft fire. He bailed out of his stricken aircraft near Schwollen, Germany and was captured. After being beaten by locals, he was captured by German soldiers and spent the remainder of the war in Stalag Luft I as a Prisoner of War (POW). 

Later in life, Edwards served as a Colorado Springs City Planner from 1968 to 1972, was a flight instructor, and was enshrined in the Colorado Aviation Hall of Fame in 2001.

The artwork is signed by a number of pilots, including Wilson "Bill" Edwards who ended up flying 37 missions with 133 Squadron. The print is one of several pieces of memorabilia donated by Edwards to the museum.

Story Credit: Rich Tuttle

Douglas B-23 Dragon Worked On At WestPac

WestPac Restorations, on the campus of the Museum at Colorado Springs Airport, is helping to restore a Douglas B-23 Dragon bomber which had been owned by Howard Hughes after World War II and operated as an executive transport.

Components of the plane, including wings and engine cowlings, were sent to WestPac from an operation in Houston, Texas. When WestPac finishes its work, it will send the components back to Houston where the plane will be fully assembled and restored to flying condition. It will then be flown to Colorado Springs for display at the Museum.

The plane's owner is now Museum benefactor Jim Slattery.

Story and Photo Credit: Rich Tuttle 

82nd Anniversary of Operation Vengeance,

the Yamamoto Shootdown

April 18 marks the 82nd anniversary of the 1943 shoot-down of Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, who planned and ordered Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. The 59-year-old Yamamoto was a complex, well-educated and well-travelled man, and the Japanese navy’s greatest strategist. He was a hero in Japan but hated in America.

On April 13, 1943, Japanese forces sent to Japanese recipients an encrypted detailed itinerary of an upcoming trip that Yamamoto was scheduled to take; unknown to the Japanese, their encrypted code had already been broken. U.S. codebreakers determined that Yamamoto was about to fly from the main Japanese base at Rabaul to Ballalae, a small island near Bougainville in the northern Solomons some 400 miles west-northwest of Guadalcanal, to congratulate Japanese air units there upon completion of Operation I-Go, an effort of only modest success to blunt U.S. advances in the Solomons. By the morning of April 14, the message was passed to U.S. Navy Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet; he subsequently issued an order on April 15 to "get Yamamoto."

Lockheed P-38 Lightnings -- the only aircraft with the range to go that far and return -- from Guadalcanal shot down his plane and another plane carrying his staff.

Get the full story from our exhibit "Operation Vengeance – the Mission to get Yamamoto." The museum has an extensive display on the shoot down that includes a video with Rex Barber, the pilot generally credited with shooting down Yamamoto, describing the planning and execution of the mission. Also included in our display is a collage of the shoot-down material featuring an actual piece of the Japanese Betty bomber that carried Yamamoto.

The very rare Betty piece was donated to the museum by Dr. Bill Wolf, shown here at his desk.

Story Credit: Rich Tuttle

Special Presentation: “Pappy” Gunn, An Unlikely Hero of the Pacific Air War  

Saturday, May 17, 2025

Museum opens at 9:00 a.m.

Presentation at 10:00 a.m.

A demonstration flight of the Museum's B-25J Mitchell "In The Mood" will follow the presentation (weather permitting)

According to General George Kenney -- General Douglas MacArthur's air commander in the Southwest Pacific -- “Pappy” Gunn played a key role in the success of the 5th Air Force during WWII. Kenney said of Gunn, “He was a gadgeteer par excellence”.

Paul Irvin “Pappy” Gunn joined the U.S. Navy in 1918, serving as an aircraft mechanic while learning to fly on his own time. In 1923, he was selected to be an enlisted naval aviator, serving in a fighter squadron and as a flight instructor before retiring from the Navy as a Chief Petty Officer in 1939. After his retirement he started Philippine Air Lines. With the start of WWII, Gunn was mobilized and commissioned as a Captain in the Army Air Corps, where he shuttled supplies to forces fighting on Luzon using airline planes. When the Philippines fell, Gunn escaped to Australia, but his family was interned in Manila.

Kenney learned that Gunn was using 0.50 caliber machine guns from wrecked fighters to add punch to A-20 Havoc attackers; he was so impressed by Gunn's innovative abilities that he placed him in charge of special projects. Kenney had Gunn convert a squadron of B-25 Mitchell medium bombers into similar deadly strafers; it was hugely successful and many more were converted. North American Aviation eventually began to incorporate variations of Gunn's armament innovations in later models of the B-25. Gunn's modified A-20s and B-25s played a key role in the Allied victory in the 1943 Battle of the Bismarck Sea.

Gunn flew many, many combat missions throughout the war, reaching the grade of Colonel and earning two Distinguished Flying Crosses, the Silver Star, Legion of Merit, Air Medal, nine Purple Hearts, and the WWII Victory Medal.

After Japan's surrender in World War II, Gunn turned to rebuilding his Philippine Air Lines. The company provided flights across the south Pacific. Gunn died when his plane crashed in a storm over the Philippines on October 11, 1957.

On Saturday, May 17th at 9:00 am, Lead Docent and retired Army Colonel Nick Cressy will present the story of Pappy Gunn and his great contributions to the air campaign in the Southwest Pacific. Weather permitting, we'll fly our B-25J Mitchell medium bomber following the presentation.

Standard admission prices are in effect. The purchase of advance on-line tickets is encouraged.

Advance ticket prices are:

Adult - $17

Child (4-12) - $13

Senior and Military - $15

WWII Veterans – Always FREE!

Children 3 and Under – Always FREE!

Museum Members - Included in membership; please call 719-637-7559 or stop by the front desk to make your reservations.

And of course, parking is always FREE!

Story Credit: Colonel Gene Pfeffer (USAF-retired), Museum Curator and Historian

Free Museum Admission Days!

Mothers get in free on Mother’s Day!

Fathers get in free on Father’s Day!

Kids 3 and under are always free!

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