Is your Dad still kicking? WW2 vets have been getting more and more scarce. The Old Man has been gone for 13 years now. Through him, I had the pleasure of meeting many others. We owe these guys a debt that can never be repaid! There’s a reason why they call them the greatest generation. They were!😀 BTW, thanks for posting the link to the movie. Reon
He passed on June 21, 2006. 80 years old. Fought Alzheimer’s for seven years.
You only live once, but...if you do it right, once is enough.
I don’t remember what year ……but Christmas Eve my dad flew a mission strafing and dive bombing a German encampment in a forest. The next mission it shows him strafing two houses. He told me later a tank and half track was hiding between them. It really made him look like a nice guy to my classmates. I showed his gun camera film in my 7 th grade English class…we were reading diary of Anne Frank.
Later on his tour my dad got shot down, taken prisoner, then escaped. He was shot down flying the Maj Mac….it’s now a video game. His thunderbolt was too shot up to fly. He said they didn’t have g suits…so the blood would pool in their legs making them dizzy or worse yet pass out as they pulled up from a dive.
He also said the barrels on the machine guns would be shot out and needing replaced each mission.
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"Shoot low sheriff, I think he's riding a shetland!" B. Wills
