Announcing the long waited for, overdue, and much feared formation of the first P-38 Squadron.
The 475th FG was the first P-38 squadron, in it served some of the highest-scoring Aces of WWII, notably :
Charles MacDonald
and
Thomas McGuire, Jr.(38 Victories)
Any applicants please e-mail me at tacwork@hotmail.com.
Ride the Lightning!
Lightning's in the Sky
Oh, Hedy Lamarr is a beautiful gal,
And Madeleine Carrol is too.
But you'll find, if you query,
a different theory
amoungst any bomber crew.
For the loveliest thing
of which one could sing
this side of the Heavenly Gates,
is no blonde or brunette
of the Hollywood set,
but an escort of P-38s.
Sure, we're braver than hell,
on the ground all is swell,
in the air it's a different story.
We sweat out our track,
through the fighters and flak,
we're willing to split up the glory.
Well they wouldn't reject us,
so Heaven protect us,
and until all the shooting abates,
give us courage to fight 'em,
and one other small item,
An Escort of P-38s!
Author Unknown (But known to have been a bomber crewman!)
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(Yes, I will shrink the pic, I wish the HTML code would be enabled, it allows size modifying!)
Tac
=475th Fighter Group=
"Lightning Riders"
[This message has been edited by Tac (edited 03-19-2000).]
