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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Spooky on March 23, 2006, 02:09:56 AM

Title: the big show is over
Post by: Spooky on March 23, 2006, 02:09:56 AM

Pierre Clostermann, WWII French top ace, just passed away.

RIP

he was an inspiration, and a good man.

HE never surrendered.

(http://www.debarquement.com/photos/closter01.jpg)

(http://cocker03bis.free.fr/clost4.jpg)

Title: the big show is over
Post by: deSelys on March 23, 2006, 04:00:57 AM

RIP Sir, I've read your book "the Big Show" at least 20 times when I was a teenager.

An inspiration to all. His open and honest accounts of strafing the heavily flak defended german airfields were gut-wrenching: those actions terrified him yet he never flinched.

Title: the big show is over
Post by: Krusher on March 23, 2006, 09:41:12 AM

Title: the big show is over
Post by: Maverick on March 23, 2006, 10:28:27 AM

Fair skies and tailwinds forever.