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Lancaster pilot
Met a Lancaster crewman yesterday at a book signing. Flew 1944 to 1946.
Laurie Woods, DFC
94. Sharp as a tack.
Why do I admire those Bomber Command guys?
Killed in action...........51% (55,573)
Killed in crashes ..........9%
Seriously injured in crashes...3%
Prisoners of War.........12%
Evaders......................1%
Survivors unharmed...24%
All volunteers.
Bomber command casualties even at that latter stage of the war exceeded ground force casualties. And yet every week they climbed back into the Lancasters.
That's courage.
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(As for) Michael Moore:Calling that lying liberal POS propaganda a documentary is like calling PARF the library of congress.
I knew it would happen, just not so soon...........
Last edited by aap1966; 04-09-2017 at 04:53 AM..
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