CLASSIC AIRWAR OVER GERMANY WW2 ONLINE GAME FULL
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Yet with a 1 in 10 chance of becoming a casualty, few were able to reach this milestone. Kevin is my guest today, and will share Lucky’s story, and with it, the story of WWII’s famous B-17 bomber.ĭuring the war, airmen in the 100th Bomb Group could finish their combat service and return home after flying 25 missions. So writes the 100-year-old World War II veteran John “Lucky” Luckadoo in the new book he co-authored with Kevin Maurer: Damn Lucky: One Man’s Courage During the Bloodiest Military Campaign in Aviation History. My hope is that this book honors the men with whom I served by telling the truth about what it took to climb into the cold blue and fight for our lives over and over again.” We volunteered for the service and, once trained and overseas, felt we had no choice but to fulfill the mission assigned. We were all afraid, but it was beyond our power to quit. “We were young citizen-soldiers, terribly naive and gullible about what we would be confronted with in the air war over Europe and the profound effect it would have upon every fiber of our being for the rest of our lives.
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