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Old 07-27-2009, 05:22 PM
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Originally Posted by haitch40 View Post
i have a story about a p47

this guy in the p47 was shot up by fw190s and thought he'd be dead any second he then couldn't bail and on top of that a german ace used all his ammo shooting the p47 but somehow this guy got home
That was Robert S Johnson, the story is told in full in his book "Thunderbolt".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_S._Johnson
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