On Mon, 24 May 2004 11:56:15 -0400, "R Haskin"
wrote:

Raz -

How much beer would it take to move this one to the top of your list?? I had
a chance to dring with Robin Olds last year when he attended the 479th Gp
60th Anniversary Reunion here at Moody. It was a life-changing experience
for this fighter pilot, that's for sure. PLEASE make sure that his story and
his words make it to print before the US loses another real-life hero and
legend.

It wouldn't take anything to get it to the top of my list (or my
publisher's as well!) But, I'm not sure my own liver could stand a
half-dozen or more trips to Steamboat drinking through the interviews.

Robin has loads of great stories and the simple facts of his
incredible life would make a great read. Every time I get to talk to
him, I'm increasingly amazed at the events, and he recalls them all in
incredible detail.

I'd thought that his WW II kills came mostly in Mustangs, but he
started out in the P-38--his story of coming up on the tail of a
FW-190, only to have both engines quit just as he's about to pull the
trigger, then shooting the German down as he's piloting a glider is
incredible.

His front seat view of Bolo as well.



Ed Rasimus
Fighter Pilot (USAF-Ret)
"When Thunder Rolled"
Smithsonian Institution Press
ISBN #1-58834-103-8