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Interesting website. "This site is dedicated to recording this various "Senior Scouting" Programs (for those 13/14 and older) of the Boy Scouts of America. Since its establishment in 1910, many such programs have come and gone. Here we try to give a history of these programs, what they were about, and their insignia, uniforms, literature, and more. " "Topics covered: Senior Scouts, Seascouts/Sea Scouts/Sea Explorers/Sea Scouts, Rover Scouts, Air Scouts/Air Explorers/Aviation Exploring, Explorer Scouts, Explorers, Exploring, Senior Scouts/Explorers in Troops, Senior Degree Honor S
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Returning to Gaston County after the war ended, the elder Quinn was active as a Boy Scout leader and worked with a now long-defunct division of Scouting known as the Air Scouts. In 1947, when the younger Quinn was 3 years old, Gastonia businessman and community leader Allen Sims, for whom Sims Legion Field was named, purchased a B-24 likely headed for the scrap heap and donated it to the Gastonia Boy Scouts. The plane was to serve as a memorial to Sims' son Albert, an Army Air Force fighter pilot who was shot down over China during the war against Japan. The plane wa
