My father was barely 18 when he was a B-24 mechanic.
--Bob Whitmire
Registered Neanderthal
On Jul 11, 2013, at 2:06 PM, Charles Geilfuss wrote:
> I believe George McGovern (as in Nixon vs McGovern) was 21 when he was
> flying a B-24 from North Africa to the oil fields in Rumania. IIRC, the
> bird Colonel over him was 26.
>
> Charlie
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Mike Lazzari
> <watershed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>>> Oh, they're old enough, all right
>> Probably older than my dad was when they gave him a B17 to fly to
>> Germany...
>>
>> Mike
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