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World War II Pilot Jim McCubbin had a special visit from a restored P-51 Mustang on June 3 in Rome.

PEACHTREE CITY — Jim McCubbin, a 101-year-old U.S. Air Force pilot and hero, took a step back in time June 3 as he watched a restored P-51 Mustang taxi toward him at the Richard B. Russell airport in Rome.

McCubbin knows the plane well. He flew the aircraft during World War II and is credited with destroying nine enemy planes before being shot down in 1945 and becoming a prisoner of war.

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