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P-51 Pilot: A Day in the Life
Posted on: 2013-01-17 16:12:44 A Mustang jockey recounts one of his most memorable missions—from start to finish. By William Lyons @ Historynet.com "You're on tomorrow," Captain John Poyen, 357th Squadron intelligence officer, tells me the day before the mission. It's November 25, 1944, and I'm a 20-year-old first lieutenant P-51 pilot from Brooklyn, New York, assigned to the 357th Squadron, 355th Fighter Group, Eighth Air Force, and based at Station 122, in Steeple Morden, England. Read on... |