Subject: #1 Piston Fighter was British
From: "Paul J. Adam"
Date: 7/1/03 1:22 PM Pacific Daylight Time
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Art, you and Gavin both have valuable information to share, acquired in
very different ways. I know you won't kiss and make up, but can you try
to find a way to live with your argument? I value both sources and would
hate to lose one or both.

Thanks for the kind words. Years ago when this NG was young it was filled with
WW II veterans of the air war over Germany. At least 2 B-17 pilots, one from
the Bloody 100th Bomb Group with incredible stories to tell. Some navigators
who had been to Ploesti in B-24's and a number of gunners from both B-24's and
B-17's. These men in relating their combat experiences were constantly and
uniforrmly attacked by a hords of wannabbees, many who had never even seen a
military aircarft much less flown in one. They were discounting what these
veterans relayed because they read somewhere that it was otherwise and they
were telling these veterans what war was "really like'. One by one the vets
left this NG in disgust.. I kept in contact with many of them and tried to
bring them back.One or two came back, but left when the wannebees struck again
time after time. But I am a different breed of altogether.. I will never be
dirven off by wannabees. Never in a million years. Many guys who have given me
the same crap over and over are now gone.I'm still here. And will be as long as
I can make it to the computer keyboard. The Luftwaffe couldn't get me. And the
wannabees don't stand a chance..

Arthur Kramer
Visit my WW II B-26 website at:
http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer