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Title: first-hand combat accounts of WWII pilots
Post by: 4Prop on May 15, 2012, 01:39:05 PM: http://www.eaavideo.org/video.aspx?v=1119180171

there is alot of video of combat pilots telling their tales

he also became friends with him after the war, as well as cleared Hub Zemke from a 109
Title: Re: first-hand combat accounts of WWII pilots
Post by: Hawk78th on May 15, 2012, 04:06:05 PM: I especially liked Robert "Shorty" Rankin's tales of being in the 61FS 56FG...

:aok
Title: Re: first-hand combat accounts of WWII pilots
Post by: 4Prop on May 15, 2012, 04:08:30 PM: Quote from: Hawk78th on May 15, 2012, 04:06:05 PM
I especially liked Robert "Shorty" Rankin's tales of being in the 61FS 56FG...

:aok

As did I
Title: Re: first-hand combat accounts of WWII pilots
Post by: Groth on May 16, 2012, 07:34:16 PM: Ah yes..4prop..you wicked, wicked purveyor of flying video links! Just spent 6(SIX) hours(HOURS!) watchin watermelon from DC-7 thru Super Chb, WW2 flers interviews and DC-3 stuff.... may you never pass an air field w/o having to stop... :)
Title: Re: first-hand combat accounts of WWII pilots
Post by: kilo2 on May 16, 2012, 08:03:51 PM: good video makes me want to fly a jug.
Title: Re: first-hand combat accounts of WWII pilots
Post by: oakranger on May 16, 2012, 08:25:03 PM: WOW! What a great story. Thanks! :salute
Title: Re: first-hand combat accounts of WWII pilots
Post by: Jappa52 on May 16, 2012, 08:29:59 PM: That was wonderful. What an adventure, drafted and supposedly in for only a year... 32 years later he retires.
Title: Re: first-hand combat accounts of WWII pilots
Post by: Seanaldinho on May 16, 2012, 09:50:32 PM: Quote from: Groth on May 16, 2012, 07:34:16 PM
may you never pass an air field w/o having to stop... :)

I cant help it even without being cursed. We were on vacation in Orlando driving to Disney, Oh hello an airport we'll just stop in see if anything interesting is out. ;)