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<blockquote data-quote="Lone Wolf &#039;49" data-source="post: 1606827" data-attributes="member: 3016"><p>All of the WWII pilots and crew just amazed me. Bob Hoover I do remember reading of him. Not too many books I have read on the air wars, but the B17s over Europe were something else that I have heard a lot more of. Good friend's father was a belly gunner. I don't know how he did it. I went up in the EAA's B17 sometime in the late 90's just to try and envision his getting into that turret for that long flight and survive the 25 missions. Personally, over the years I have read more of the ground units and personnel than the air wars' pilots. I have said so before on here but from Lone Wolf was a gentleman named Pat Dugan who flew fighters in the South Pacific. Well, let me say when he died suddenly in the fifties from a fighter jet flight accident over Colorado (he was Air Force Reserve then, after Korea), I never had seen such a funeral procession in my life. I know too much information. Colonel Dugan actually flew wing man for a very famous pilot in the South Pacific in WWII.</p><p>Another note, long book, and little know but Stillwell and the China Experience if I remember correctly. Vinegar Joe Stillwell was in his sixties, a general in the USArmy when the war broke, commanded all the ground forces in China and SE Asia during WWII. Great read. Be glad to loan it to you.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lone Wolf '49, post: 1606827, member: 3016"] All of the WWII pilots and crew just amazed me. Bob Hoover I do remember reading of him. Not too many books I have read on the air wars, but the B17s over Europe were something else that I have heard a lot more of. Good friend's father was a belly gunner. I don't know how he did it. I went up in the EAA's B17 sometime in the late 90's just to try and envision his getting into that turret for that long flight and survive the 25 missions. Personally, over the years I have read more of the ground units and personnel than the air wars' pilots. I have said so before on here but from Lone Wolf was a gentleman named Pat Dugan who flew fighters in the South Pacific. Well, let me say when he died suddenly in the fifties from a fighter jet flight accident over Colorado (he was Air Force Reserve then, after Korea), I never had seen such a funeral procession in my life. I know too much information. Colonel Dugan actually flew wing man for a very famous pilot in the South Pacific in WWII. Another note, long book, and little know but Stillwell and the China Experience if I remember correctly. Vinegar Joe Stillwell was in his sixties, a general in the USArmy when the war broke, commanded all the ground forces in China and SE Asia during WWII. Great read. Be glad to loan it to you. [/QUOTE]
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