Subject: Aircrew casualities
From: Steve Hix NVALID
Date: 9/26/03 7:43 PM Pacific Daylight Time
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In article ,
(ArtKramr) wrote:

You are only saying that because you never had to fly the Schweinfort
mission.
If you had there would be no way in hell you would call it typical. Find
me
one guy who went to Schweinfort and said it was just another mission like
all
others. No big deal. Nothing special. Find me just one such guy.

Wouldn't be my high school algebra/woodshop teacher. He was a
B-17 navigator shot down over Rengensberg. Spent the rest of
the war as a guest of the German government, including time
working on tunnel support for the "Great Escape". (He spent
time mostly at Sagan and Mooseburg, IIRC.)

He did make a point in mentioning that there were some very
good surgeons who worked on him after the shootdown, else he
would not have been there to teach us.


Only guys who never flew anything but an armchair would call Schweinfurt
"typical".

..

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