For some perspective
 

I've been watching a lot of things like this recently.

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Shaun - I'm pretty lucky. My cousin Billy Lyons was a P51 fighter pilot. He's 97 now but still sharp and fun to talk to and hear all his stories.

He has two birthdays. his real one and the one on his birth certificate that he forged so he could enlist before he was 18.

He was nicknamed Tiger and his plane was called "Tiger's Revenge"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nk5lV3P4V-k

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This is a (real) restored P51 that was made to look like Billy's plane from WW2. He and my dad each went up in it pre pandemic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCzg2trmudE

You are lucky Mark, what an amazing man! God, I would talk with him as much as I could. Great videos, thanks for posting.

Magic.

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Billy is a lot of fun. He talks about how he finally learned to drive in the Air Force, after he was already a fighter pilot. He and my dad were Brooklyn boys so driving wasn’t a thing. After the war he used the GI plan to put himself through MIT and eventually opened his own advertising agency. Last time he came to visit, he brought a box of pictures and basically explained the last 100 years of our family history on my fathers side. His 355 squadron innovated new ways to attack the German airfields and he shot at and damaged a German jet. He doesn’t bring up his wartime flying but if he’s talking about it, his stories are fascinating. My father in law was also a WW2 vet. True hero’s of that era.