Subject: Alt.senile.artKramer
From: Do not answer
Date: 8/10/2004 2:12 AM Pacific Standard Time
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robert arndt wrote:


IIRC, the B-26 was a deathtrap that killed more airmen in accidents
than in battle. Art raves on about it forever as if that aircraft
alone won the war which is garbage. And to make matters worse he
constantly talks about the bravery of the B-26 crews as if all the
other Allied airmen were ****, not to mention Luftwaffe pilots and
crews which kicked ass over anything Art or his crew ever did.

I think that when you experience stuff like what Art did
during the war you get a fondness for what got you through
it alive - be it an airplane, tank, ship. Or your friends!

You don't have to go to war to feel a certain closeness to
people or machines, but surviving a war should make that
closeness so much, well, closer. :-)
ANY team effort brings people closer toghether - with
each other and with their equipment.

What I'm saying is, whatever the merits of the B-26, real
or imagined, I can understand Art's feelings for it!

And as for Arts postings: I read his wartime stories with
great interest. We don't share all views, but so what?
And I have yet to catch hime with what I believe to be a lie.

Just my 2 cents
Asbjorn
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To reach me by e-mail, please use _sheridan at babcon dot org_.



Thank you. It is nice to have all this work appreciated.


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Arthur Kramer
344th BG 494th BS
England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany
Visit my WW II B-26 website at:
http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer