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GOP Flying Badgers
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Distribution of campaign literature for Joseph R. McCarthy's primary campaign by the Young Republican's Flying Badger Squadron. The two pilots photographed at an unidentified airport are thought to be Roland Sephenson of Cedarburg and Ralph Emling of Milwaukee. This campaign allowed McCarthy to blanket the state with his literature.
August 1946
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