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Subject: Bomber-jacket leather and our law
From: (Michael) Date: 9/23/03 7:26 PM Pacific Daylight Time Message-id: e9a6fbc9.0309231826.6513df5 Thank you for taking the time to discuss this stuff with me. I really appreciate it. My pleasure. Ask away. Oh and I forgot to mention the big fat heavy sheepskin flying boots that we wore all that winter.I was never so cold in my life before or since. If I could bother you with one other question which I've always wonder about (but nothing is ever written)... what was life like between missions? i.e. What responsibilities would aircrew have between missions? What did they do to fill up the day when they weren't flying? Thanks, ~Michael Michael go to my website and read a story called " THE RAIN AT PONTOISE" to get an idea what it was like when we weren't flying. Arthur Kramer 344th BG 494th BS England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany Visit my WW II B-26 website at: http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer |
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Yeah, the A-6s. Did you wear just the boots themselves, or were they big enough to be worn over a pair of shoes? Ah, that takes me back! In basic training I was issued a pair of overshoes (galoshes, if you prefer) so large that when I walked they never left the ground. In the interest of the Company's rank in the climactic Speed March, we wore the galoshes all day, every day. Mine never left the ground, or more accurately: mud. all the best -- Dan Ford email: www.danford.net/letters.htm#9 see the Warbird's Forum at www.warbirdforum.com and the Piper Cub Forum at www.pipercubforum.com |
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Subject: Bomber-jacket leather and our law
From: Cub Driver Date: 9/30/03 2:29 AM Pacific Daylight Time Message-id: 15jinvk4e04p44ult8tiln4fielnhoefrk Yeah, the A-6s. Did you wear just the boots themselves, or were they big enough to be worn over a pair of shoes? We wore those big sheepskin lined winter flight boots over regular boots. If you didn't the boots would snap off when your chute opened and you would land barefoot in the winter snow. Arthur Kramer 344th BG 494th BS England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany Visit my WW II B-26 website at: http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer |
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(ArtKramr) wrote:
Subject: Bomber-jacket leather and our law From: Cub Driver Date: 9/30/03 2:29 AM Pacific Daylight Time Message-id: 15jinvk4e04p44ult8tiln4fielnhoefrk Yeah, the A-6s. Did you wear just the boots themselves, or were they big enough to be worn over a pair of shoes? We wore those big sheepskin lined winter flight boots over regular boots. If you didn't the boots would snap off when your chute opened and you would land barefoot in the winter snow. Arthur Kramer Our 'winter flying boots' were fleece lined, leather topped with a rubber 'foot part'. They were large enough to wear over boots and were great in Canada's arctic in winter, where it gets cold enough to freeze the balls off'n a brass bedstead. -- -Gord. |
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