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Subject: Why would an RAF pilot become a USAAC co-pilot?
From: "Kevin Brooks"
Date: 2/9/04 5:26 PM Pacific Standard Time
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Subject: Why would an RAF pilot become a USAAC co-pilot?
From: "Ed Majden"
Date: 2/9/04 10:58 AM Pacifi

Most wanted to
be pilots but the greater majority ended up as Navs, Air Gunners,
Wireless
Operators and Bomb aimers eventually assigned to No. 6 Bomber Group
(R.C.A.F.).
Ed



Makes no difference what you wanted to be. You were assigned where you
were
needed.

Yep, for the most part (though I do know one WWII vet who, upon finding out
his entire aviation cadet class was being cancelled and the newly enlisted
members being reassigned to other duties, flatly refused to train as a radio
operator--and got his assignment to gunnery school that he was willing to
take). Kind of strange to hear you admit that, though--wasn't that long ago
you were claiming that all of those who wanted to engage in direct combat
operations could do so, regardless of what the "needs of the service" were.

Brooks



Arthur Kramer


Nobody got out of combat duty.

Yeah, but a while back you made the comment that all anyone who really
wanted to get *into* the fight had to do was ask to be transferred to
the fighting, and they would. And that anyone who said they missed
out on fighting due to where they were assigned at the time was
basically hiding behind an excuse. But then in this thread you turn
around and say "Makes no difference what you wanted to be. You were
assigned where you were needed." So which is it? Can everybody who
wants to fight ask for a transfer and be sent there, or do people
sometimes get stuck in capacities and places that aren't in the thick
of the action?

~Michael