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Offline agent 009

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« on: August 06, 2005, 06:31:04 AM »
With all the 38 chat of late, I thought I'd toss this in.


Excellent article about what happen to McGuire......

http://www.aerothentic.com/history/articles/McGuire.htm
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Offline Captain Virgil Hilts

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« Reply #1 on: August 06, 2005, 08:42:25 AM »
It isn't all that excellent. It ignores practically everything Weaver said and Weaver was a lot closer than Thropp. The claim that McGuire was shot down is not supported by the evidence.
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« Reply #2 on: August 06, 2005, 03:42:40 PM »
When it first came out, it appeared to me that Thropp personally couldn't accept the fact that McGuire died the way he did and wanted to "restore" his honor by stressing he was shot down and not lost to what some would consider pilot error.  The facts just don't support Thropp.



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« Reply #3 on: August 08, 2005, 05:46:08 PM »
Like Von Richtofen, and many other aces, I find their careers more interesting than their last flight, which sometimes has a tendency to be over analyzed.
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