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Offline RJH57

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Birthday of Luftwaffe ace Willie Reschke!
« on: February 04, 2017, 08:28:47 AM »
born on February 2, 1922, Luftwaffe ace Willi Reschke who flew the Fw-190D and Ta-154H,  celebrated his 95th birthday this year.

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Re: Birthday of Luftwaffe ace Willie Reschke!
« Reply #1 on: February 04, 2017, 01:22:26 PM »
Bailed out five times.    Wow.

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Re: Birthday of Luftwaffe ace Willie Reschke!
« Reply #2 on: February 04, 2017, 01:45:31 PM »
Quite the lucky fellow.


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Re: Birthday of Luftwaffe ace Willie Reschke!
« Reply #3 on: February 04, 2017, 02:52:15 PM »
 :salute
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Re: Birthday of Luftwaffe ace Willie Reschke!
« Reply #4 on: February 04, 2017, 10:04:21 PM »
Bailed out five times.    Wow.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willi_Reschke

Someones obviously worried about his MA stats!

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Re: Birthday of Luftwaffe ace Willie Reschke!
« Reply #5 on: February 04, 2017, 10:43:23 PM »
Someones obviously worried about his MA stats!

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"In Fighters, one must always quest to be
     a well-oiled machine fore Belching,
Whoring and Punching of Heads because
 inevitably the Goal is to flame the Enemy
            and Screw his Old Lady"

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Re: Birthday of Luftwaffe ace Willie Reschke!
« Reply #7 on: February 06, 2017, 12:34:12 AM »
Have his signature, one of the only cool WW2 aviation things I have.
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Re: Birthday of Luftwaffe ace Willie Reschke!
« Reply #8 on: February 06, 2017, 03:02:14 AM »
Bailed out five times.    Wow.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willi_Reschke

One of those was after he had rammed a B-24 because his guns jammed. The immortality of young men...
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Re: Birthday of Luftwaffe ace Willie Reschke!
« Reply #9 on: February 06, 2017, 11:56:39 AM »
One of those was after he had rammed a B-24 because his guns jammed. The immortality of young men...

I will drink to that.
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