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To: virgil283

My Father was in the combat engineers and their bridge across the Rhine was attacked by jets.

He said a nearby anti-aircraft battery claimed to have shot it down but all they knew was that it flew away looking healthy.


63 posted on 07/20/2014 1:31:32 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
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To: yarddog
"claimed to have shot it down but all they knew was that it flew away looking healthy"....

HA..., I've read fighter pilots accounts like that, by the time you pulled the trigger it was gone.

They said instead they would linger around Nazi Air Fields and when they tried to land the P-51s would pounce.....

66 posted on 07/20/2014 1:41:41 PM PDT by virgil283 (When attacked by clowns go for the juggler)
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To: yarddog

My dad was in an anti-aircraft artillery battery in WWII, and the first time that they encountered a Luftwaffe jet they knew that they a had a problem.

The electric motors that kept their guns locked on target weren’t fast enough to keep up with the jet. If they were going to shoot one down they were going to have to explode shells ahead of it and hope the jet ran into something.

Fortunately the Germans didn’t have enough jets for them to take advantage of their speed.


73 posted on 07/20/2014 3:32:24 PM PDT by Pelham (California, what happens when you won't deport illegals)
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