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To: Trump20162020
Broch flew 324 combat missions and shot down 81 enemy aircraft on the Eastern Front

This guy won the lottery. What are the odds of surviving 324 missions, flying for the losing side in WWII?

16 posted on 07/22/2017 9:06:40 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: PGR88

The number of guys who survived 324 missions on the *winning* side is pretty small.


17 posted on 07/22/2017 9:26:33 AM PDT by Campion (Halten Sie sich unbedingt an die Lehre!)
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And it doesn’t even put him in the top 100...Erich Hartmann, 1456 missions, 352 kills @ #1.


19 posted on 07/22/2017 10:31:48 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building)
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To: PGR88

The Germans never considered Soviet pilots their equals like they did the RAF and later, to some extent, the Americans.


21 posted on 07/22/2017 1:24:19 PM PDT by PLMerite ("Government should be done to cattle and not human beings." - John Milius)
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