Subject: SHOULD YOU OPEN FIRE?
From: "Dudley Henriques"
Date: 12/13/03 10:02 AM Pacific Standard Time
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"ArtKramr" wrote in message
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Subject: SHOULD YOU OPEN FIRE?

I guess that is why they stuck us back in the tail-end-Charlie
slot until we were dry behind the ears..But we moved up quickly with
experience
and ended up flying deputy lead before the war ended.

One thing's for certain. Nobody learns about aerial gunnery faster than the
guy flying that TEC position!! In the fighter groups, early in the war,
before viable and realistic tactical formations became the rule of the day ,
that position was tantamount to a death sentence for many.

Dudley Henriques
International Fighter Pilots Fellowship


Well for us Flak was more of a dangere than fighters. And in most cases where
flak strikes is more of a statistical happenstance than the slot you were in.
But you are right, TEC wasn't my favorite slot and we were glad to move up and
out of it..

Regards,


Arthur Kramer
344th BG 494th BS
England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany
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