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Location: SW Cheese Country
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Originally Posted by afterburn 549
Try flying with shrapnel coming through the thing, tracers with 3 or 4 rounds between them,coming at ya,
Fighter planes strafing.
Knowing your odds of ever making it back got worse with every mission.
If you got caught you would be killed slowly.
Men among men they were.
I just don't see today's generation being able to do it.
These planes were known for coming back (if they came back) so shot up they could not ever be flown again.
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Well, we do have people like Col Bobby Efferson or Captain Kim Campbell that brought their A-10 back after having them perforated.
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