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Am I allowed to know if I would survive?

Put me over the Channel in a Hurri!

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It's still the same old story : The 'Eighth' gets all the glory : And yet someone must die : The odds are always too d@mned high : As flak goes by...

C'mon guys...

Low-level raid on Ploesti is the only choice.

5 Medals of Honor issued...everybody else awarded a DFC.

Wonder why no one has ever made the movie?

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It was a good idea, it just didn't work.

Rudels tail gunner on the mission he sunk the Russian Battleship.

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The raid on Truk lagoon.

With all those fat merchantmen bottled up in the harbor, who could resist.

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It's you and me against the world.

We attack at dawn.

OK, my turn....

1. Midway

2. the Turkey Shoot

3. any mission with the AVG that involved combat

4. any mission with Cactus that involved combat

5. the Doolittle Raid

6. the Mission Beyond Darkness

7. the fire Raid on Tokyo

8. Schweinfort (sp?)

9. any mission in MiG allet with Wally Schirra that involved
combat

10 May 10, 1972 with VF-96

P-38 flight to shoot down YAMAMOTO

I kinda think of this as who.....who I'd wannabe

1. Emil "Bully" Lang, on the big day.
2. Captain Hugh Mills, any pink team run.
3. At Shweinfort,(I know I spelled it wrong)
4. Dammit,,,,,can't remember the names or dates, but the cat who landed on the emeny held field and rescued his buddy, Vietnam, Skyraider...
5. A member of the "Novotny Shwarm" (more bad spelling). Or Walter himself.
6. Any "VB" unit, Mdway.

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Deep Thoughts,
Jack Handy

Yup,
I like JG-54.

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"If we could just get everyone to close their eyes and visualize world peace for an hour, imagine how serene and quiet it would be until the looting started. Age 15 "


Deep Thoughts,
Jack Handy

October 20, 1943 as one of the Spit XII pilots of the Tangmere Wing, on the day they claimed 9 for no loss. Either 41 or 91 Squadron would be fine. Since my initials are DLJ I suppose 91 would make the most sense as DL was the squadron codes. DL-J Has a nice look to it

Dan

Having flown actual combat missions, I would have to say that I'm perfectly satisfied with being a spectator rather than participant to any significant historical air battles.

The problem is that, as a participant, you only see your small piece of what is happening. You are so concerned with avoiding the AAA, with making sure you are on time, with making sure your bombs are on the correct target, that you forget to take the time to "enjoy" the fact that you are there. Oh, and did I mention that there's also the fact that you're probably scared out of your wits? Doesn't sound like fun to me.

I also don't know that I'd want to observe any of these events as a fly-on-the-wall, either. People tend to forget while people performing actions which are later awarded medals seems glorious, it is nearly always surrounded by enormous suffering. That is not something that I'd really be interested in seeing.

Don't get me wrong, guys. I am a profesional fighter pilot and my *job* is to kill people and break things using an airplane. Getting shot at is, however, *highly* over-rated. I'm inclined to pay my deep respects to those individuals who participated in those epic aerial battles and be happy that I didn't have to.

O.P.,

Shame on you for forgetting! It was Major Bernie Fisher of the 1st Air Commando Squadron who rescued Major Jump Meyers of the 602nd ACS after Meyers rode his A-1 deadstick into a strip in the A Shau Valley.

Fisher wound up winning the first Air Force Medal of Honor in Vietnam for that little junket.

Real men.

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It was a good idea, it just didn't work.

Oops...date was March 10, 1966

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It was a good idea, it just didn't work.

What ! no body mentioned the Dam Buster raid? Also that Mosquito raid on that Gestapo Prison (Amiens?)

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Warbirds of India

Now the Mossie raid would be interesting, I love low level attack stuff

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For who ever said the Polesti reaid you are BONKERS!!! I will asume you want the second raid with 178 B-24s of wich 68 limped home
Yes all the Medals and DFC did come of it, but a lot were postumously given, the oil still did flow, more airman would fly over that reched ground that was fought over so hard, and a B-24 at 10,000 ft is bad!!!!!

That fenting, I would have to pic flying with the 10th airforce over the hump.
Midway in an F4F any of the B-24 campains out of the Pacific
Operation Bararossa in a bf 109D
Lastly in a P-47N off a CVE over Sipain!

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