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...hokum this. In early 1945, Major Wyatt ("Rat-top") Exum, then deputy commander of the 325th Fighter Group based at Lesina Airdrome in Italy, while returning from a fighter sweep over German-infested, mountainous Hungary, brashly landed his P-31D, wheels down, on a handkerchief of flat land bisected by a deep ditch, to rescue an uninjured squadron mate who had crash-landed his ship with an overheated engine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 3, 1949 | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

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