[lit-ideas] Re: Punitive Expeditions
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 17:36:04 -0400
> [Original Message]
> From: William Ball <ballnw@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Date: 5/8/2006 5:04:33 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Punitive Expeditions
>
> Not sure how Robert Paul knows I've "seen combat."
> I "saw" it from 28,000 feet over North Korea in 1952 when
> some flak burst a bit of a ways down and off too starboard.
> Other than that we bored holes in the midnight sky for a total
> of 10 missions and then they called our war off.
>
> Unfortunately, we lost our radar man, a good friend of mine from
> Glen Cove, Long Island when he was breaking in our sister crew's
> radar guy on their first mission. Shot down near Sinuiju (sp) on the
> Yalu.
> Other than a few sea lane surveillance missions along the coast of
> Siberia, I can't say I saw much of any war, except a sick feeling in
> briefing
> before the mission. "If you're shot down in the Sea of Japan in January,
>
> you've got two minutes to get your ass in a dingy before you die." Some
> guys wore their survival suits under the flying suit for good measure.
>
> That's all the war stories I' ve got. Had some good arguments in the bar
>
> at Yokota Base in the Officer's Club though. No medals for that though.
>
> Yeah, war is hell.
>
Not to Lawrence it isn't.
> William Ball
> Norma Ball
>
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