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Dear Ed,
I was very pleased to receive your letter about your connection with "DOC" and the P-38s, especially "Glacier Girl".
I don't know if you are familiar with my involvement with Glacier Girl or not. In 1992 I was asked by Roy Shoffner to do a sketch for that plane, I did a sketch and presented it to Roy and all the personnel working on the plane, My wife and I went with Roy to his home and presented the sketch to Roy's wife Eddie Lou.
My sketch was accepted by everyone concerned, including Eddie Lou, Roy said at that time the job was mine.
I painted banners for the plane to be shown at air shows, I also did my sketch in black and white for printing purposes, Plus I worked on a letterhead for Roy. This was at no expense to Roy.
Two years later, in 1994, Eddie Lou started making changes to my sketch, and each year my wife and I would present a new sketch with the changes that Eddie Lou requested.
We would make the trip to Middlesboro and meet with Roy, Eddie Lou, and Bob Cardin, and Eddie Lou would make more changes to her previous changes.
This went on every year, until 2002, ten years after my first sketch, when I said that was enough. In the meantime I got a copyright on my original sketch to protect myself.
Roy had given me $500.00 several years previous, to help cover some of my work because I wasn't charging him a cent for all of my work, banners, etc, plus the changes that Eddie Lou kept requesting.
I think you know the rest of the story, and where the plane is now. Bob Cardin told me that if Roy passed away he would have me down there painting my original girl on the plane the next day. That of course never happened and it was a big disappointment in my life.
Now you know my connection with Glacier Girl, I would still love to paint my girl on that plane. (See below)
Your aviation friend,
Owen W. Hughes
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