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To: pabianice

Yeager got to fly one and had nothing but praise for it.

I truly believe God intervened and put into Hitler's head that it needed to be a bomber. That one move halted production at a time that it could have stopped the bombing of Germany by B17s.


12 posted on 01/13/2006 8:28:29 AM PST by Sensei Ern (Now, IB4Z! http://www.myspace.com/reconcomedy/ "Cowards cut and run. Heroes never do!")
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To: Sensei Ern
Yeager got to fly one and had nothing but praise for it.

I read Yeager's autobiography last summer. It talked about how he was the first one to be able to shoot an ME-262 down. He developed a little pullup maneuver at slow speed in a type of arc, with machine guns blazing in a spray pattern. I highly recommend the book.

201 posted on 01/14/2006 4:08:31 PM PST by Jackknife ( "I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him 'father'." —Will Rogers)
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