In article <2016073115331691137-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom>, Savageduck says...
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>On 2016-07-31 21:42:24 +0000, Miloch <Miloch_member@newsguy.com> said:
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>> Louis Zamperini, Olympic runner, and later war prisoner and hero, served as a
>>bombardier on two B-24s. The first, "Super Man", was damaged, and the crew was
>>assigned to B-24D "Green Hornet" to conduct search and rescue. On 27 May 1943,
>> the aircraft crashed into the Pacific Ocean. Eight of the 11 crewmembers were
>>killed. Zamperini, pilot Russell A. Phillips, and Francis McNamara survived the
>>crash. Only Zamperini and Phillips survived their 47 days adrift on a life raft
>> on the sea.[48] Zamperini is the subject of two biographies and the 2014 film
>> Unbroken.
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>> ...also, my father.
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>So, are you Cissy, or Luke?
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Neither...not related.
Pre Pearl Harbor in Lancaster CA, my father was like a lot of guys who were
interested in flying. Down the road was a flying service owned/operated by
Pancho Barnes and he took his first lessons from her.
After Pearl Harbor, he joined the Army Air Corps but came down & was bed-ridden
with rheumatic fever just after graduation from flight school and was pronounced
unfit for combat duty.
At the time, 1942, there was a pilot shortage and he was kept on as a flight
instructor (eventually for B-24s). He told me that one of his instructors was
Jimmy Stewart. I remember him giving hilarious impressions of Stewart giving
him instructions during flight training.
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