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Subject: Re: [OM] OT: Aircraft Identification
From: ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 19:55:39 +0200
Thanks, Chris. 

I'll look that out. 

ChrisB

C M I Barker | Gamlingay


> On 19 Sep 2016, at 16:58, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>     More so than you might imagine.  I recently read the book "The Lost 
> Airman" about a B-24 flight engineer and top turret gunner who was shot down 
> during a bombing raid near Bordeaux.  He described a number of flaws in the 
> B-24, including the fact that the top of the fuselage was a fuel tank and 
> that the only exit for bailing out was near the tail.  The Germans would 
> shoot incendiary rounds at the top of the aircraft to cause it to explode.
> 
>     The book describes what it was like to be concealed by the French 
> Resistance while moving around in Vichy France, then walking across the 
> Pyrenees into fascist Spain, avoiding Gestapo agents, and finally making it 
> to Gibraltar.  It is NOT a novel.  Damned good read.
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