engine oil and radiator damage. Fails too quickly!

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Originally Posted by Anders_And

U ever read any first hand account from WW2 pilots?! I just finished "the big show" by Pierre Clostermann. In one chapter he tells the story when his Spitfire was hit in the oilsystem over France and oil was spraying all over his canopy and how he managed to nurse his machine home with zero oil pressure and an engine that was on the edge to explode from the heat. He managed to cross the channel and land safely in England... there are 100s of these accounts from various ww2 pilots..

100s? I start to wonder why pilots ever felt the need to crash land.
Maybe they were scared.