Comments on: Jug CAS

By: djvc

djvc — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 23:57:51 +0000

BDA out of the front windscreen!

great secondaries from bullets!

By: GEO6

GEO6 — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 01:29:26 +0000

My favorite WWII warbird. Great video. Few other titles for the readership to check out: Thunderbolt by Bledsoe; Zemke’s Wolfpack by Freeman; and a personal hero of mine: Gabby by Gabreski/Molesworth; and finally P47 Thunderbolt by Hess.

By: William the Coroner

William the Coroner — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 21:18:05 +0000

Oh, man. Dangerous and deadly, and I feel sorry the railroad folks, but WOW!

By: Buck

Buck — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 17:54:07 +0000

Lex sez: Sometimes I think that I was born 40 years too late.

But had you been born 40 years earlier, you probably would have flown some sort of ‘cat…Hell or Wild…and missed all that stuff in The Old Countries.

Great vid, and so rare because it’s in color. Thanks!

By: Idaho Joe

Idaho Joe — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 14:55:38 +0000

Got to agree with Byron on the book Thunderbolt! Great read. There is an especially good part about Bob Johnson bringing his severely damaged Jug back to England, with an ME-109 trying to shoot him down in several passes.

Great film, I especially like the mechanics riding on the wing for guidance. Gotta love a tail dragger with a huge prop.

By: CPT J

CPT J — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 14:16:38 +0000

Reminds me of an old cartoon about the youth of the Jug pilots:

A jeep driven by MPs drops off a captured Luftwaffe pilot at a battalion aid station near a forward air strip. The aristocratic German is pissed. “I am Hauptmann Jurgen Von Something and I demand to see the man who shot me down!”

So the MPs call the airfield and another jeep brings the P-47 pilot who bagged the Kraut. Von Something can’t believe his eyes, and flips out: “You boy!! You, you…child!! You cannot be the man who defeated me!” But the MPs nod and gesture to the gum-chewing butter-bar who doesn’t seem impressed at all with the Prussian ace. Trying to salvage his dignity, Von Something looks down his nose and sneers: “I have sixty-four victories! Sixty-four!! How many victories do you have??!!

The kid grins back: “One sir!”