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1945 - 0885.PDF
MAY IOTH, 1945 FLIGHT Advertisements 7 ONLY THOSE THUNDERBOLTS €O!TL!> HAVE SAVED OIJK BACON THIS MORNItfti! "«itz" they're planning...The C. O. told us to gel 'em ...and he don't mean maybe...It was another job of sweating it out, and brothers did we sweat... the flak looked like a solid wall and about the time we managed to sneak through and get a couple of swell takes, things began to happen. ffi,A flock of those one-o-nines thai Heinie's been saving, took us on as their personal meat... my port number two quit cold... starboard number one started smoking, our navigator copped a packet, the intercom went...then, just as I was beginning to wander what a shor'nuff pair o' wings would feel like, assorted hell broke out among Schickelgruber's spiteful lads. CLOne burst into flame off my port wing, a gent making a head-on run disintegrated ... and by the time I limped around and headed for home, two more Jerrys were spinning down and the rest of ihe visiting firemen hightailed away from there. CLBelieve me, chums, I was between a gulp and a prayer when two P47's*, who'd apparently been the total rescue squad, lined up over our tail, proceeded to wet nurse us home, and, as r * STATISTICS FROM ALL FICHTINC FRONTS ihough it were just another routine chore, flipped DEMONSTRATE THE UNMATCHABLE around and went calmly back to the wars." PERFORMANCE OF THE ''THUNDERBOLT" REPUBLIC QP AVIATION CORPORATION
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