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To: Bobalu; sparklite2
Just to show some scale with a human.

need two shoehorns and a bucket of grease to get in.

37 posted on 12/16/2015 4:00:03 PM PST by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern - Chesterton)
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38 posted on 12/16/2015 4:01:28 PM PST by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern - Chesterton)
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To: Covenantor

Yup, it was a dangerous posting for a small soldier.

Audie Murphy small and Audie Murphy brave!


50 posted on 12/16/2015 4:25:05 PM PST by Bobalu (Even if I could take off, I could never get past the tractor beam!)
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To: Covenantor
I once interviewed a guy who was a ball-turret gunner on an Eighth Air Force B-17 in '44~'45. He said the hard part wasn't climbing into the turret. It was getting a guy who'd survived a mission over Germany to climb into the turret again.
60 posted on 12/16/2015 5:20:50 PM PST by Flatus I. Maximus (Obstruct. Oppose. Overthrow. Obama.)
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