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To: laplata

Same here! I was at U-Tapao in 1969 when it was raining, lightning and thunder something awful! I bought a watermelon from a local boy and was just about to cut it open when BAM! The dirt flew off the screens on our hootch as a blast wave went through, and I thought that it was a very close lightning strike! Then I noticed the sky was a brilliant orange-red, and everyone started running toward the flight line.
There, at the end of the runway, lay a crippled bomber on fire. The blast was one of the bombs going off.

That is as close as I ever want to be to a bomb!


51 posted on 04/26/2015 5:12:05 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (</P><P><)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Scary!


54 posted on 04/26/2015 5:17:12 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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