{"id":35444,"date":"2016-07-08T00:15:47","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T03:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=35444"},"modified":"2016-11-24T21:18:51","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T00:18:51","slug":"p-51-mormon-mustang-fought-the-nazis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/08\/p-51-mormon-mustang-fought-the-nazis\/","title":{"rendered":"P-51 Mormon Mustang Fought the Nazis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael &#8220;Mikey&#8221; Weinstein might have manufactured a controversy over &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2010\/01\/20\/secret-bible-codes-on-military-weapons\/\">Jesus rifles<\/a>,&#8221; but in World War II, there was a <em>Mormon Mustang<\/em>.\u00a0 From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.151arw.ang.af.mil\/index.asp\">151st Air Refueling Wing<\/a> in Utah:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-35445\" src=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/mormonmustang2.jpg\" alt=\"mormonmustang2\" width=\"1260\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/mormonmustang2.jpg 1260w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/mormonmustang2-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/mormonmustang2-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/mormonmustang2-1024x731.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1260px) 100vw, 1260px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Roland R. Wright stands next to the P-51 &#8220;Mormon Mustang&#8221; he made his name flying in over Europe in WWII. Wright shot down three enemy aircraft during the war.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Utah Air National Guard is stationed <!--more-->on the recently-named Roland R. Wright Air National Guard Base, which is colocated with Salt Lake City Airport.\u00a0 A P-51 bearing the name\u00a0<em>Mormon Mustang<\/em> still <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GlXXor-WAwQ\">flies today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Wright died <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/home\/3093842-155\/roland-wright-pilot-of-the-mormon\">just last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In an era in which hypersensitive political correctness has stripped even remotely religious references from some parts of the US military, you sure wouldn&#8217;t see that on an airplane today, would you? And then to have the base named after him as well&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael &#8220;Mikey&#8221; Weinstein might have manufactured a controversy over &#8220;Jesus rifles,&#8221; but in World War II, there was a Mormon Mustang.\u00a0 From the 151st Air Refueling Wing in Utah: Roland R. Wright stands next to the P-51 &#8220;Mormon Mustang&#8221; he made his name flying in over Europe in WWII. Wright shot down three enemy aircraft during the war. 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