Subject: General Zinni on Sixty Minutes
From: "Pete"
Date: 6/4/04 6:44 PM Pacific Daylight Time
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"ArtKramr" wrote


If time is the criteria (stand by for cheap shot...), how much time to
you have as pilot-in-command? As a rated AF pilot? As pilot of a
Century Series jet? Solo?

Don't let this pioot stuff go to your head. The entire purpose of a
bombing
mission in WW II was to put a bombardier over a target for 30 seconds. The
pilot was just the driver. And when it came to flying good bomb runs some
pilots weren't worth a ****.

And today, the pilot, navigator, bombardier and gunner may well be the same
guy.

Pete


I was born too soon. But I wouldn't have missed it for anything.


Arthur Kramer
344th BG 494th BS
England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany
Visit my WW II B-26 website at:
http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer