(ArtKramr) wrote:
Subject: ?? Wasps flew Hurricanes and Spits??
From: vincent p. norris
Date: 12/19/03 4:33 PM Pacific Standard Time
Message-id:

While at the Wright Memorial earlier this week,
I picked up a NASA
pamphlet entitled _Celebrating a Century of
Flight_.

On page 13 there's a picture of Jackie Cochran
with a caption quoting
her as saying, about the WASPS, "We landed
planes like the Hurricane
and the Spitfire in fields where I wouldn't
land my Lodestar today if
I could avoid it."

I find that hard to believe. Anyone know if
the WASPS flew Huricanes
and Spits? If so, what were the circumstances?

vince norris


Thye sure did and in most cases qanded them
on grass fields. Not a runway in
sight. And what with Brit weather these grass
fields were often muddy and quite
dangerous. But these Wasps piled up huge hours
and many had more hours in the
air than most combat pilots. They were good.
Real good.

Regards,

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

If society then had allowed it, how would they have done in combat? A number
of them have in recent years asked themselves that question, and they had
no easy answers. Some would have done well, some not, just like the guys.
And the Luftwaffe would have been just as appalled as it was when a Luftwaffe
Me-109 driver shot down a Yak-1 and landed to get a piece of the plane to
confirm the kill: he found a female pilot's body in the cockpit. First Luftwaffe
indication of Soviet women in air combat.

Posted via www.My-Newsgroups.com - web to news gateway for usenet access!