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Capt Molland in P51 Mustang

Seated in the cockpit of his plane, ready to take off on another mission, is Captain Leland P. Molland, 1415 8th Ave., So., Fargo, North Dakota, who has a grand total of 145 missions to his credit and is one of the leading pilots in his North American P-51 Mustang group, now stationed in southern Italy. Captain Molland is quite a stunts-man, which many times has enabled him to out maneuver his opponents while on missions over enemy territory, and has 7½ enemy planes to his credit as well as one probable. 7 February 1944.