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To: AFret.

I knew a Gentleman who was a gunner in the 9th and flew it, he was the one who told me you could walk across all the lead the Germans were throwing up.


45 posted on 11/23/2022 1:40:52 PM PST by dpetty121263
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To: dpetty121263

I knew a Gentleman who was a gunner in the 9th and flew it, he was the one who told me you could walk across all the lead the Germans were throwing up.


Some of the flack towers were shooting DOWN on the passing B-24’s. They were flying so low, one airplane returned to Benghazi with corn stalks in his bomb bay.
Compare those heroes to the losers we have infesting our country today.


46 posted on 11/23/2022 2:23:25 PM PST by AFret. (.)
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“...he was the one who told me you could walk across all the lead the Germans were throwing up.”

They used to call it a “carpet of Flak.”


53 posted on 11/23/2022 6:06:32 PM PST by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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