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03-13-2005, 01:56 AM
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03-13-2005, 04:23 AM
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03-13-2005, 04:50 AM
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03-13-2005, 10:51 AM
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03-13-2005, 12:04 PM
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"Reminds me of the time I sank the Tirpitz" comments a Spitfire pilot, "One pass of course, old boy." | |
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03-14-2005, 10:06 AM
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Originally Posted by cheddar cheese 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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03-21-2005, 07:44 AM
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03-21-2005, 10:20 AM
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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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03-21-2005, 03:47 PM
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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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03-24-2005, 07:14 AM
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04-01-2005, 08:35 AM
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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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04-01-2005, 08:37 AM
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#13 | | Master of Ewes
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04-01-2005, 08:46 AM
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As far as I know the atmosphere of this meeting was very cordial (General Skalski said so)...
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04-03-2005, 03:52 AM
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