Subject: Fly Boy ?????
From: ost (Chris Mark)
Date: 10/22/03 10:30 PM Pacific Daylight Time
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From Art Kramer:

To second guess the decisions of any person caught in such a circumstance,
wherein life changed in the blink of an eye, could possibly result in a
slanderous injustice to that person......although, when all is considered
in
a
war zone wherein death, mutilation, and crippling are occurring on an
industrial scale, a slander is the pettiest of an injustice one can suffer.

Just an observation.
Dave

True. But he still would be suspect since most would not know the details
fo
the loss. When a crew is lost and only a pilot survives, questions will be
asked no matter what.

On March 20, 1945 on a mission to Campo, near the Austrian border, B25J
#327487 received a direct hit by an 88MM shell and went down. Crew included
Mack Coneglio, Granger McKinnan, Racetlo and Zawestowski. Mack (pilot) was
the
sole survivor and spent the remainder of the war in Mooseburg Prison Camp.
So instances of only the pilot surviving as a matter of luck did occur. Of
course, in most cases no one knew who--if any--of a crew that went down over
enemy territory survived. They just weren't around anymore.


Chris Mark

True. But that small lingering doubt always wll remain since the pilot is
responsible for his crew.



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