![]() ![]() And there again, it was an accident.”ī.J. "The second time I was in a different type of airplane, I was in a P47, I was so low, all I could do when I got hit was put the nose between two trees and let the trees take the beating. So that crash was considered being shot down and destroyed the airplane, but I was able to continue flying. What they didn’t show was that I didn’t have a wheel on my right strut. Q: Getting shot down once seems almost certainly fatal, but twice? Is surviving that experience mostly luck or is it not necessarily as bad as it sounds?Ī: “The first time I got back to the field and when I dropped my gear my indicators showed I had three down and locked. Instead of pulling up, we stayed in the Moselle River, so we escaped all the fire, and we didn’t lose one guy. I figured there was no way we’d be missed, but we did. ![]() "But it was our turn to go down, so we went. And even if you could move a quarter mile an hour you’d get hit, because of all the lead in the air. We were a flight of four, flying to cover, and I watched the other guys go in to dive bomb the marshaling yard. Fighter pilot jacket full#"As we went down to attack the marshaling yards, I remember the sky was full of lead. ![]()
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