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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Have on September 12, 2007, 12:53:59 AM
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This week thursday snapshot is the Frankfurt (http://ahevents.org/western-european-theatre/frankfurt.html), which is a quite new setup and also an good training opportunity for the upcoming "Der Grosse Schalg" scenario.
The event starts at 21.00 CET, 3 PM EST in the Special Events Arena (SEA). Please be a little early. Any requests for sides or command duty are most welcome can be made in this thread.
(http://ahevents.org/images/stories/snapshot_images/daddog/Frankpic.jpg)
The B-17 was the most enjoyable aircraft I ever flew. I arrived in the UK an experienced B-17 pilot and used the B-17 on every kind of Scouting Force job: weather recon, photo recon, dropping lifeboats, air and sea rescue. At Wormingfold the P-51 Mustang pilots used to do ‘peel ups’ – great swoops over the runway- before landing, so we did the same in a B-17 until the CO put a stop to it, saying it would be his butt if some bigwheel saw us landing like that.
I flew 30 missions with the 833rd Bomb Squadron, 486th Bomb Group and in that time I lost all my officers to enemy action by the 6th mission.
Quoted from Dave Mullen; The Bomber War, by Robin Neillands.
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