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Timbo

09-13-2014 08:54 AM

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Originally Posted by badflaps (Post 1726384)

Too bad you guys missed the B-17 and B-24 stories, there was a MIA guy who was in Eagle Squadron. Cigarettes and Johnny Walker diet. MIA/SFO seemed twenty minutes long...

I just finished reading a book about Curtis LeMay.

Crazy amount of crap those guys went through, and the death rates...even in training! :eek:

http://www.amazon.com/LeMay-Life-War...emay+biography

Being a SAC Trained Killer, I had to find out about my 'roots'. Amazing stuff.

Ferd149

09-13-2014 10:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Timbo (Post 1726425)

I just finished reading a book about Curtis LeMay.

Crazy amount of crap those guys went through, and the death rates...even in training! :eek:

Amazon.com: LeMay: The Life and Wars of General Curtis LeMay (9781596987692): Warren Kozak: Books

Being a SAC Trained Killer, I had to find out about my 'roots'. Amazing stuff.

I'll have to get that one. But, the best first person B-17 book I've ever read is "The Wrong Stuff". Funny and scary at the same time.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/080613...&robot_redir=1

Guy became a screen writer after the war so he writes real well too.

John Carr

09-13-2014 12:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Timbo (Post 1726139)

No dick measuring please, I'll lose, just ask my wife!

Whenever a girl laughs/giggles/sighs at my lack of size, I'll just read this thread. It'll help me to feel better knowing there's A LOT of guys out there worse of than I am.......

Thedude

09-14-2014 12:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Justdoinmyjob (Post 1726171)

FWIW, there are worse training enviroments than UPT.

Yup.........

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