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...sack!" proclaimed Lieut. Colonel Francis Gabreski. The 25-year-old pilot had just brought his Thunderbolt fighter back to its British base. His outfit had not sighted a single German plane that...
Nazi reports agreed on this: Commodore Colonel Walter Oseau, the Luftwaffe's third ranking fighter ace, had been killed in combat with a U.S. Thunderbolt pilot. On his record there was a sharp disagreement: some communiques credited Oseau with 116 Allied planes, some with...
...other: Captain Robert Johnson, 24, Eighth Air Force Thunderbolt pilot, momenta rily expected home on leave...
Since Johnson flies a P47 Thunderbolt, Army airmen can continue their argument about the relative merits of P-38s and P-475. Johnson flies against the Germans and Bong against the Japs; most airmen lately have been willing to concede that the Germans provide tougher opposition...
Flat-Tired Take-Off. Major Gilbert Wymond, a Thunderbolt pilot from Kentucky, tried the unheard-of stunt of loading his P47 with two 1,000-lb, bombs. The load squashed his fully inflated tires nearly flat on the takeoff, but he staggered into the air. Since then P47 pilots have lugged two 1,000-pounders as a matter of routine...