When it comes to finding hidden treasures, sometimes the best place to look is right under our noses. Case in point was the discovery of a true combat legend, a bazooka-toting Piper L-4H Cub named Rosie the Rocketer. After reading a story about the World War II exploits of Major Charles “Bazooka Charlie” Carpenter, Joe Scheil, an airline pilot by day and a serial-number sleuth by night, discovered that Carpenter’s killer Cub was hanging in an Austrian aviation museum.
Scheil contacted his friend Rob Collings of the Collings Foundation, who had been looking for a documented European theater combat