From: "John Carrier"
Date: 7/14/2003 13:17 Pacific Daylight Time

At any rate as a TG instructor and later in VF-154 he never acted over the
top. Willy, OTOH, really started to believe he was somebody special.

That's an interesting observation John When researching the history of VF-96
in the late 1980s I had the opposite impression.

Didn't interview either Duke or Willy, as the history wasn't the "Duke & Willy"
show, and there was plenty of available material for Connie's 71-72 cruise,
including all the MiG kills.

BTW, did interview Duke's first tour RIO ... He mentioned what you did about
Duke soaking up whatever he could, and they would fly any and all chances that
presented itself.

This isn't meant as an argument, just a general impression gained from some 15
years ago while researching.

Anyway ... g

MW
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