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Stinson AT-19

For every WW II, gun-toting combat bird, be it fighter or bomber, there were dozens of trainers, liaison grasshoppers, transports, and utility craft that history has largely forgotten. One of those is the Stinson Reliant that, when dressed in camo and wearing roundels or stars, labored in the background performing mundane squadron hack duties or, more importantly, providing training for

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