Subject: #1 Piston Fighter was British
From: (The Revolution Will Not Be Televised)
Date: 7/1/03 1:47 AM Pacific Daylight Time
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Escorted raids did not begin and end with the Mustang. Look at German
pilot losses in August-November

True. we had a few misions where we got Spitfire esocrts. It went like this'
They would pick us up at about the bomb line. Sock in all around ur and stay
with us for a while. Then with a gallant wiggle of wings they would break of
and turn back, Gavin have you have any idea of what it feels like to be in
bomber heading into the Ruhr valley and watch your fighter escort go home and
leave you? No. You can't even know that feeling.You can understand it
intellectually, but you will never really know the feeling. The 51's took us
all the way in and all the way back. That was the difference.And in that
difference lay life and death.

Arthur Kramer
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