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F-84 Thunder Streak

In Memory of Those Who Served

 
 
F-84 Thunder Streak Marker image. Click for full size.
Whitley County Historical Museum, October 14, 2011
1. F-84 Thunder Streak Marker
Inscription.

F - 84 Thunder Streak
Served Korean War

In Memory of Those who Served

our Nation’s Cause
in All Conflicts
Past - Present - Future

Veterans of Foreign Wars
of the United States

Dedicated September, 1985

by V. F. W. Post 2919
South Whitley, Ind.

 
Erected 1985 by V.F.W. Post 2919 South Whitley, Ind.
 
Topics. This memorial is listed in this topic list: War, Korean.
 
Location. 41° 5.007′ N, 85° 37.612′ W. Memorial is in South Whitley, Indiana, in Whitley County. It can be reached from East Front Street east of South Street (State Road 5), on the right when traveling east. At South End of the Town Park. Enter Park between the town city buildings (on E. Front Street) and follow the drive to the South End of the Park. Touch for map. Memorial is in this post office area: South Whitley IN 46787, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in Northern Indiana and in Greater Fort Wayne. It is also in the American Midwest and in the Corn Belt. Globally, it is in North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture and also the Northwest Territory.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 7 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: South Whitley Grist Mill (about 300 feet away, measured in a direct line); South Whitley (about 300 feet away); First South Whitley High School (about 300 feet away); South Whitley High School (about 300
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feet away); "Let There Be Light" (about 400 feet away); Site of Kinsey School (1847-1926) (approx. 2.2 miles away); Gutscher Sanitarium (approx. 6.6 miles away); Larwill Indiana (approx. 6.7 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in South Whitley.
 
Also see . . .  Republic F-84F Thunderstreak. Wikipedia entry (Submitted on December 13, 2020, by Larry Gertner of New York, New York.) 
 
Wide View - - F-84 Thunder Streak Marker image. Click for full size.
Whitley County Historical Museum, October 14, 2011
2. Wide View - - F-84 Thunder Streak Marker
The South Whitley F-84 Thunderstreak image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Harold A. Skaarup, Indiana Warplanes, Unknown
3. The South Whitley F-84 Thunderstreak
s/n 51-1739 in Vietnam era camouflage.
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on September 11, 2021. It was originally submitted on August 2, 2013. This page has been viewed 776 times since then and 33 times this year. Photos:   1, 2. submitted on August 2, 2013.   3. submitted on December 13, 2020, by Larry Gertner of New York, New York.
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