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Old 03-13-2005, 01:56 AM   #1
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Old 03-13-2005, 04:23 AM   #2
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yes i really shuold check out this new rule.........
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Im not gonna bother abiding by it, but shhh!
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Im not gonna bother abiding by it, but shhh!
I certainly hope you are kidding, CC. Because if an Administrator is not going to abide by that, then it sets a precedent that no one else has to either.
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Respectable people those pilots were... True heroes...
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Bert Marshall shot down 2 on September 11, 1944. Priest claimed 1 and Henry Brown shot down 3 Luftwaffe a/c. I am a freind of the 355th fighter group........
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Old 03-21-2005, 03:47 PM   #9
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Jack Illfrey landed in a field in Europe and picked up a fellow pilot I think he had transitioned into P-51s by that time.
Also a Couple of P-38 drivers did it in Europe too. A funny sidebar is that after the escape while posing for the camera it took 15 minuets to get the canopy closed - they didn't have any problems during the rescue.
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On the 6th December 1942 several Beaufighters attacked the Airfield at Tmimi, Flt Lt Campbel's Beaufighter was damaged by flak, and 40 Miles from the target had to land, Plt Of Hammond landed helped Campbel do makeshift repairs to the Beaufighter, and they both were able to take off, Flt Lt Campbell had to land again somewhere in Libya, so Plt Of Hammond landed a 2nd time, at which point Plt Of Hammond took off with the crew of the damaged Beaufighter on board, and destroyed the damaged Beaufighter.

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wow that's wuite a story.........
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And now something a bit different.
On 1st September 1939 2nd Lt Stanisław Skalski after a struggle of his III/4 squadron against German planes near Toruń lands in the field near a shot down Hs126 recon plane.
He switches the engine off, jumps out of his P11c and approached the German plane. He finds there a German observer/navigator - Lt. S von Heymann and dressed his wounds. Later he discovers that the Henshel's pilot, F. Wimmer lays nearby, near the hedgerows and provides him with first medical aid.

That is what I call a spirit of chivalry in the air struggle.
There are very, very few similar examples in the history of the last world war...

Gen. Skalski met Friedrich Wimmer again in 1990 in Bonn. There was also Gen. Adolf Galland at this meeting.
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it'd be interesting to hear what they said to each other.........
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Yes, it would be nice to know.
As far as I know the atmosphere of this meeting was very cordial (General Skalski said so)...
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