Subject: Flyboys (Was: Flyboys?)
From: ost (Chris Mark)
Date: 12/18/03 9:35 AM Pacific Standard Time
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From: Cub Driver

As I get deeper into Flyboys, my irritation increases. Bradley
regularly refers to the North American B-25 Mitchell bomber as a
Billy.

Matilda or Gertrude, maybe, but not Billy. Definitely not a male but a
placid,
homely, dependable, strong-as-an-ox female.

As to "flyboy," I asked an old friend if he ever recalled being referred to
by
anyone as "flyboy," and he said, "No....., unless it was in a bar and some
gyrine used it while trying to muscle in on my girl. Broken beer bottle
fight
following immediately, of course."


Chris Mark

No one ever dared call Willie the Wolf a female.



Arthur Kramer
344th BG 494th BS
England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany
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