A Day That will Live in Infamy

[gforbess at attglobal.net (Gordon Forbess)]

On Tue, 6 Dec 2005 20:18:59 -0500, "John S. Lagnese"
<jlagnese@massed.net> wrote:

>Sure, I'd be interested. My father was in the Army Air Corps during the war.
>Flew radio on UNARMED C-47s

A friend of my dad's was a C-47 pilot in Burma, flying gasoline and
supplies over "the hump" for the Chinese.  Not only unarmed, they
ripped out the de-icing equipment to enable them to carry more cargo
and flew through mountain passes in horrible weather.  At the end of
the war, he would not even fly home. He took a troop transport ship
and never set foot in an airplane again. Figured his flying luck was
used up.  

Gordon
75 Mk I/Drake 1.9
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