Aircrew casualities

Subject: Aircrew casualities
From: Mike Marron
Date: 9/17/03 5:34 AM Pacific Daylight Time
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(ArtKramr) wrote:

Interesting.We never took evasive action against fighters.we jus tightened
our
formation, stayed on course and returned their fire. We did take evasive
action
against flak. Find their parachutes??? We wore them from the ground
up.Y'mean
the Brits didn't??? If you got hit and didn't have your chute on it was
often
too late to put it on.

Would you shoot the Jerry *******s in their chutes?

-Mike (I damn sure would've) Marron




No Mike, I don't think; I would. I have strafed and when I saw woman or
children I lifted my thumbs off the triggers. See "Strafing as if in a dream".
on my website. But I don't think you can make that decision as to whether you
would kill a man in a chute until he is right in front of you.. When you are
actually there and see the man, then we'll see. It isn't easy to kill a man in
cold blood.

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

(ArtKramr) wrote:
Mike Marron wrote:

Would you shoot the Jerry *******s in their chutes?

-Mike (I damn sure would've) Marron

No Mike, I don't think; I would. I have strafed and when I saw woman or
children I lifted my thumbs off the triggers. See "Strafing as if in a dream".
on my website. But I don't think you can make that decision as to whether you
would kill a man in a chute until he is right in front of you.. When you are
actually there and see the man, then we'll see. It isn't easy to kill a man in
cold blood.

Just reflecting on the many talks over a cold brew I've had with my
Dad (who, as you know, was a warrior). It wasn't the airplane he was
after, it was the SOB_flying_the_plane.

-Mike Marron

Mike Marron wrote:

(ArtKramr) wrote:
Mike Marron wrote:

Would you shoot the Jerry *******s in their chutes?

-Mike (I damn sure would've) Marron

No Mike, I don't think; I would. I have strafed and when I saw woman or
children I lifted my thumbs off the triggers. See "Strafing as if in a dream".
on my website. But I don't think you can make that decision as to whether you
would kill a man in a chute until he is right in front of you.. When you are
actually there and see the man, then we'll see. It isn't easy to kill a man in
cold blood.

Just reflecting on the many talks over a cold brew I've had with my
Dad (who, as you know, was a warrior). It wasn't the airplane he was
after, it was the SOB_flying_the_plane.

-Mike Marron

You've apparently never heard the admonition "Get him on the rise
sir, get him on the rise", right?
--

-Gord.