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I'll have to check with Andy Parks again to be sure, but I think the Jacobs collection and the other artifacts came from Andy's father, who was the physician, and who served some years in Germany in that capacity, I think in the 1960s when many of the WW1 pilots were still alive. Jim Parks was a WW1 aviation nut like the rest of us, and got to know JJ and many others, and through these friendships acquired the basis of the collection. I have paged through JJ's diary, and even thought I don't speak German the sketches are fascinating.
Incidentally, the Lafayette Foundation fly-in is coming up on May 16 and 17, a good time to visit if you're in the Denver area.
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