To: SAMWolf; snippy_about_it; AntiJen; MistyCA; SpookBrat; PhilDragoo; All
Evening everybody! Thanks for the thread, Sam.
"God Almighty!" squadron leader Bud Anderson exclaimed. "There must be a hundred and fifty of them."
Yeager's reaction? "We couldn't believe our luck. We plowed right into the rear of this enormous gaggle of German fighters. There were sixteen of us and over two hundred of them, but then more Mustangs from group caught up and joined in. Christ, there were airplanes going every which way. A dogfight runs by its own clock and I have no idea how long I was spinning and looping in the sky. I wound up 2,000 feet from the deck with four kills...the ground was littered with burning wreckage. It was an awesome sight. That day was a fighter pilot's dream. In the midst of a wild sky, I knew that dogfighting was what I was born to do."
143 posted on
08/27/2003 5:49:16 PM PDT by
Victoria Delsoul
(The opinions I value are the ones from people I respect… the rest are just comic relief)
To: Victoria Delsoul
Evening Victoria. Like the graphic today.
144 posted on
08/27/2003 6:02:39 PM PDT by
SAMWolf
("Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography." -Paul Rodriguez)
To: Victoria Delsoul
Evening Victoria, nice graphic.
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