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Dec 13 would have been the 100th birthday of Carl Kice Brown, a Flying Tiger pilot, who passed away peacefully at his home in Corcoran, California, three months ago.

"He had been doing well and then suddenly took a turn for the worse at the end of August and passed Sept 8," one of the late pilot's daughters, Julia, said in an email.