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<blockquote data-quote="Skeptic" data-source="post: 907046" data-attributes="member: 2175"><p>No problem. I related that story to a good friend, one who flew 25 missions over Germany as a B-17 pilot and brought 'em back alive, 10 men, every time, made captain at 20 -- credited it not to skill but "well, guys kept getting killed". He retired as a colonel after flying in three wars, and retired as a squadron commander at Seymour-Johnson AFB in Goldsboro, N.C. He made it a point to visit every part of his squadron every day, even if it was but a walk-through. He had an incredible fatalistic view of things, which he said was necessary to get up and fly 15-18 hours every other day, and from which he would return with his airplane shot full of holes "the size of a half dollar" from German flac. I guess the point was that he had a 10-man crew and only two were officers, and it was teamwork in the air that kept them all alive. He went through three airplanes but essentially the same crew.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Skeptic, post: 907046, member: 2175"] No problem. I related that story to a good friend, one who flew 25 missions over Germany as a B-17 pilot and brought 'em back alive, 10 men, every time, made captain at 20 -- credited it not to skill but "well, guys kept getting killed". He retired as a colonel after flying in three wars, and retired as a squadron commander at Seymour-Johnson AFB in Goldsboro, N.C. He made it a point to visit every part of his squadron every day, even if it was but a walk-through. He had an incredible fatalistic view of things, which he said was necessary to get up and fly 15-18 hours every other day, and from which he would return with his airplane shot full of holes "the size of a half dollar" from German flac. I guess the point was that he had a 10-man crew and only two were officers, and it was teamwork in the air that kept them all alive. He went through three airplanes but essentially the same crew. [/QUOTE]
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