To: corkoman
Bong and McGuire both had more kills in P38s from land bases. The scariest part of a Navy pilot’s sortie was the landing, which was pretty tough back then.
15 posted on
02/10/2015 9:43:42 AM PST by
Boiler Plate
("Why be difficult, when with just a little more work, you can be impossible" Mom)
To: Boiler Plate
A magNIficent machine
25 posted on
02/10/2015 10:16:32 AM PST by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but, they're true)
To: Boiler Plate
Indeed - I did not mean to take away anything from Vraciu.
I must have read hundreds of books on Air Power in WWII between the ages of 14 - 20 years and I barely recall the name Vraciu.
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02/10/2015 10:31:25 AM PST by
corkoman
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