Subject: Aircrew casualities
From: Guy Alcala
Date: 9/16/03 9:09 PM Pacific Daylight Time
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e (and thus less effective fire from the
fighters, due to evasive action and longer firing ranges), and in the last
resort,
it being much easier to find and put on parachutes and then locate the

Interesting.We never took evasive action against fighters.we jus tightened our
formation, stayed on course and returned their fire. We did take evasive action
against flak. Find their parachutes??? We wore them from the ground up.Y'mean
the Brits didn't??? If you got hit and didn't have your chute on it was often
too late to put it on.


Arthur Kramer
344th BG 494th BS
England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany
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