Photo of F-9 “Flying Boxcar”
This is a picture of Wille Dog 744, an R4Q-1 Fairchild Packet (“flying boxcar”) from VMR-253 in Korea in 1953. It had just come in from Itami Air Force base in Japan and was preparing to return. For some strange reason VMR-152 and VMR 253 were mever listed as having “served in Korea” on the old Marine Corps web site. Maybe because they were actually based out of Japan and technically listed as having been based out of El Toro California I’m told.