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...Here we go again. We move into the combat zone so damn fast we feel like fighter pilots. The Jerries take off, then we land, then our fighters land and we gas them up. Why, sometimes we damn near gas up the Jerries...
Training Thunderbolt pilots is tricky business-one reason why the plane was delayed in reaching combat. There is no room for an instructor in the cockpit. The pilot is on his own in mastering speeds of 420-plus m.p.h., learning how to pull out of 680-m.p.h. power dives that can hurtle the P47 to safety when its ammunition is exhausted. In early days, many a student pilot forgot that a Thunderbolt can dive a mile in six screeching seconds, needs thousands of feet for the simplest maneuvers...
Kesselring had more vital matters to concern him. He could not depend upon the Italians at home or those in the field under General Alfredo Guzzoni, commander in Sicily. On occasion the Italians fought fiercely, gave up only when further combat was hopeless. But when they surrendered, they surrendered in crowds. As in North Africa, Italian soldiers and officers hated the Germans. Soldiers complained that the Germans took all the food; Italian airmen, that the Germans took the good planes and hangars...
...keep the fighters flying had to be brought in by air. One of the most dangerous, most important and least noticed phases of combined warfare was this job of air supply. Said one of the younger pilots who did the job: "Here we go again. We move into the combat zone so damn fast that we feel like fighter pilots. The Jerries take off, then we land, then our fighters land and we gas them up. Why, sometimes we damn near gas the Jerries...
...fear of hate. They can not be blamed on the war, and we can't, by making subversive groups the scapegoats escape our social responsibility." As for the schools solving the problem of inter-racial tensions, he reminds us that "the public can't expect the school to combat prejudice by itself, but at the same time, the school does have a part to play...