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Old January 19th 15, 01:29 PM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.aviation
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Old Geezerr wrote in
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On Sun, 18 Jan 2015 06:41:29 -0600, Mitchell Holman
wrote:

The Ruskies loved the Air Cobra and its nose cannon.
The cannon worked as a can opener on nazi tanks.


Dave:


Chuck Yeager did too, flew it before he transitioned to P-51s
flew aerobatics in them, but did get beat up pretty bad when he lost
the engine once and had to take to the chute...