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To: Drew68

Amazing!

I think I'd be dead from fright before hitting the ground.


15 posted on 07/31/2005 6:15:24 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

It doesn't work like that.
As we used to say, it's only the sudden stop at the end.

The guy over Germany was a Lancaster tail gunner, the
gunner position was so small that they kept their chutes
in the tail of the plane and put them on in emergencies,
when his plane was hit he crawled out of the rear gun
position and went to put his chute on but it had already
been burned, so he just jumped, landed in a snow bank from
16,000 feet, when captured by the germans, (he broke both legs as I remember) they didn't believe him but later found
the remains of the bomber.


16 posted on 07/31/2005 6:20:45 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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