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    Great old planes!
    Good video.
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    Pretty awesome.

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    Last time I saw any of this stuff was a air show in 1976 in Colorado Springs. Put on by then Confederate Air Force.
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    That is a great video. I am spoiled though as a P-51 flies pretty regularly over the house.

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    I was at Hagerstown,Md a couple of months ago at a place that fixes trucks and happened to look up and there was a Mustang flying over ,a few moments later a B17 flew over .

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    Awesome. Still pisses me off very few are left intact. Our gov't sells beauty and history for scrap.

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    Quote Originally Posted by copterdoctor View Post
    Thanks for the video. I absolutely love old WW-II warbirds (my favorite is the P-51D Mustang).

    My dad was a nose gunner in a B24-J bomber:




    and here's my dad in 1943... all of 18 years old:




    He was a Staff Sergeant when he got out... amazing when you figure that usually 2 out of 3 guys didn't make it home alive.

    He got shot down 3 times and had to bail out (thankfully always over Allied territory) and got a head wound that earned him a Purple Heart (as well as quite a few other medals).
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    Quote Originally Posted by Krupski View Post
    Thanks for the video. I absolutely love old WW-II warbirds (my favorite is the P-51D Mustang).

    My dad was a nose gunner in a B24-J bomber:




    and here's my dad in 1943... all of 18 years old:




    He was a Staff Sergeant when he got out... amazing when you figure that usually 2 out of 3 guys didn't make it home alive.

    He got shot down 3 times and had to bail out (thankfully always over Allied territory) and got a head wound that earned him a Purple Heart (as well as quite a few other medals).
    Awesome Roger. If he's still alive thank him for me. I hope he told you all the good stories so you can tell them to your kids.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 1 Patriot-of-many View Post
    Awesome Roger. If he's still alive thank him for me. I hope he told you all the good stories so you can tell them to your kids.
    Sadly, he's no longer with us. He was a great man. He was always honest with everyone, completely faithful to my mother and a tough but just father.

    I would be lucky if I could be half the man he was. I miss him dearly.
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