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BigV 08-26-2016 03:31 PM

Right, like a trapeze bar.

xoxoxoBruce 08-26-2016 11:23 PM

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Thousands didn't get one...

Carruthers 08-27-2016 09:27 AM

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Jerry Lashin served with the 447th Bombardment Group USAAF, based at RAF Rattlesden in Suffolk.
It would appear that he completed another five missions after the award for the twenty-five flown above.

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Jerry Lashin's mission listing, flown over the summer of 1944:

June 4 - over Versailles, France
June 6 - D-Day, Normandy, France
June 7 - Nantes, France
June 11 - Le Touquet, France
June 14 - Florennce, Belgium
June 15 - Hanover, Germany
July 12 - Munich, Germany
July 14 - near Vichy, France
July 18 - Cuxhaven, Germany
July 21 - Regensburg, Germany
July 24 - near St Lo, France
July 25 - St Lo, France
August 2 - Paris, France
August 9 - Nuremberg, Germany
August 11 - Belfort, France
August 13 - Rouen, France
August 15 - Germany
August 16 - Altenberg, Germany
August 24 - Brax?
August 25 - Richlin, Germany
August 30 - Bremen, Germany
September 1 - Mainz, Germany
September 5 - Brest, France
September 9 - St Laurent, France
September 17 - Arnhem, Netherlands
September 25 - Ludwigshaven, Germany
September 26 - Bremen and on to Bremerhaven, Germany
September 28 - Merseburg, Germany
October 2 - Kassel, Germany
October 3 - Gibelstadt, Germany

The original handwritten lists of his missions, among other items, can be found at the American Air Museum in Britain website.

You can only speculate on how much of a toll on a crewman's mental wellbeing was taken as each mission was flown.
As the number of survived missions increased, so would his chances of not returning from the next one.

Clodfobble 08-27-2016 10:03 AM

He looks like Mark Duplass.

Gravdigr 08-27-2016 12:28 PM

He does, kinda.

Gravdigr 08-27-2016 01:18 PM

Alllllmost pushed off the runway by the wind:


xoxoxoBruce 08-27-2016 04:43 PM

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Gunnery practice...

xoxoxoBruce 08-28-2016 11:45 AM

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How to wake up the pilot in mid-flight....

Gravdigr 08-28-2016 02:44 PM

That'll do it.

Gravdigr 08-29-2016 12:58 PM

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Whatdafuq?

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Gravdigr 08-29-2016 03:31 PM

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Pamela 08-29-2016 05:08 PM

Re: the AF plane.... It is hoovering up the water from the puddle below the engine pod. The water spins in a vortex due to the rotation of the engine primary fan.

xoxoxoBruce 09-03-2016 11:31 AM

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Somebody got rich...

Pamela 09-03-2016 09:36 PM

Why am I imagining a single strafing run right now?

Perhaps too many hours in a combat flight simulator?

Gravdigr 09-08-2016 01:36 PM

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Someone didn't stay inside the lines:

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