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Great stuff, Dave - bring it on! It appears that many of us here would enjoy living vicariously through your Dad! 
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03-01-2011 03:48 PM
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Edit:
This is in reply to an earlier post, but my thumbs got in the way:
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trekvana
Dave-
the book sounds like a great read. Which chapters were written by your dad??
"Looking Back on Those Great Days" starting on page 413.
"American Airmen in Buchenwald," starting on page 287. A rare, little-known dark tale, he did more than enough research to document it. There are other books/research on the subject.
"A Jug Jock's Story" starting on page 437 was written by a squadron mate.
Again, I appreciate the interest, but recognize that this forum has a different focus, and I do NOT want to "ruffle any feathers" as it were by going off-tangent............
Last edited by Dave-In-Maine; 03-01-2011 at 06:35 PM.
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His first choice was to bail out, but the control surfaces were so shot up that when he let go of the stick, the plane went in to a steep climb and pinned him to the seat. He had to brace the stick against his knees just to keep it level. The "official" bail out protocol was, I believe, to unsnap the seat harnesses, open the canopy, turn the plane upside down and simply fall out of the seat. Not an option in this case.
The real **sser is that dad's plane was being serviced between sorties to Bastogne, so he flew the squadron commander's brand-new plane on it's first (and last) combat mission............in his befuddlement after the landing, in the aircraft log, he checked the plane off as "okay."
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