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Offline SLO

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« Reply #30 on: December 09, 2002, 10:45:04 AM »
Buzz Beurlin....

head to head against the german 109's and italian 202's in the med....buzz came out on top.
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Offline Hornet

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« Reply #31 on: December 09, 2002, 10:51:25 AM »
Don Blakeslee
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Offline firbal

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« Reply #32 on: December 09, 2002, 11:22:40 AM »
Thanks guys for your posts. I like the way this is going. Some really good choses. I have alot of other people that I amirer in aviation.
Another person for me is Gabby Gabrnski (I know,spelling). I've read about him for years. I was able to met and shake his hand a couple of years ago at the WB Con in NC. I bought his book and had him signed it. It's a good read. He was there from Pearl Harbor till the end. Not many were able to make it. Of course he spent the end of the war as a guess of Germany.
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Offline Bonden

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« Reply #33 on: December 09, 2002, 12:06:33 PM »
Pierre Clostermann - If you can find it, read his book
"The Big Show"  He flew Spits, Typhs and Tempests, his uniform hangs in the Smithsonian...
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Offline Scot

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« Reply #34 on: December 09, 2002, 12:24:17 PM »
Allied:
Gabby: Best all around US pilot.
Bruce Cram: (my neighbor: flew P47C/D Ground Attack WWII and P51s in Korea).
Axis:
Addi Glunz (never shot down)
Honorable mention: Rall, Steinhoff, and Hartman
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Offline Samm

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« Reply #35 on: December 09, 2002, 01:12:36 PM »
CWO Hugh Thompson .
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Offline Nath[BDP]

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« Reply #36 on: December 09, 2002, 01:35:33 PM »
myself
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Offline krazyhorse

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« Reply #37 on: December 09, 2002, 01:49:02 PM »
John Godfrey  and Don Gentile (my wife and son are kin to John Godfrey)
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Offline lothar

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« Reply #38 on: December 09, 2002, 02:27:02 PM »
Excellent thread firbal.

Anybody who served in the AVG.
Dolittle and Chenault for being visionaries.
Douglas Badder (sp?)
Many more, just can't remember their names off the top of my head.

The guy who used to come out to the middle of nowhere Wisconsin and and gave 30min plane rides for $20 in the early 70's.  He operated out of grass field about 1/2 mile from my parents apple orchard in the spring during blossom time.  I was about 10 years old and he let me ride along for free a bunch times when i ran out of my hard earned $$$$.  He even took his hands off the yoke and tried to teach me some basic flying stuff.  I've had the bug ever since.  

I am going to hate to tell my kids they need to pay for thier own college tuition, because I'm going to blow it on flying lessons!..

:D

Better late than never...


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Offline llyr69

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« Reply #39 on: December 09, 2002, 04:06:00 PM »
GEN. Benjamin O. Davis of the 332ND FG (TUSKEGEE AIRMEN)
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Offline midnight Target

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« Reply #40 on: December 09, 2002, 05:39:04 PM »
Hell I'll say it..

Chuck Yeager... A steely eyed swift shootin SOB.
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Offline dankes

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« Reply #41 on: December 10, 2002, 01:15:59 AM »
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Albert Marcel Sqn. 340 et "Normandie-Niemen"
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