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To: Robert A. Cook, PE
...25 missions. I don't think Yossarian even made it to 25 missions.
14 posted on 06/23/2016 12:15:56 AM PDT by gigster (Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magntown of horton bat, which is about seven miles from me in us Conservatus)
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To: gigster
I don't think Yossarian even made it to 25 missions.

That's because he refused to fly: They were trying to kill him.

19 posted on 06/23/2016 1:44:07 AM PDT by j. earl carter
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To: gigster; Robert A. Cook, PE

IIRC, that 25 mission limit for 25 missions in the USAAF didn’t even make it out of 1943. They upped it fairly early on, and there was quite nearly a mutiny...aircrew morale was very low at that point.

I can only imagine the discord a moving target like that would cause.


22 posted on 06/23/2016 4:24:08 AM PDT by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: gigster

Neither did Major Major. lol


24 posted on 06/23/2016 5:44:02 AM PDT by Phlap (REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
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