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> Listen, if you have a chance to drink with WWII Hellcat pilots, do it. I would love to, but at this point they might all be dead… :(
by kortilla 4y ago
> Listen, if you have a chance to drink with WWII Hellcat pilots, do it.
I would love to, but at this point they might all be dead… :(
- ubermonkey 4y agoYeah. I realized that it's a near certainty that all the retirees I traveled with 32 years ago are now dead, especially the Hellcat pilot. He was I think 75 at the time. Sitting in a hotel bar in Kiev with him, drinking vodka, and listening to tales of the Pacific theater -- mostly just antics with his buddies, but some flight stories -- was pretty amazing. I wish I had kept a journal back then, because I've mostly forgotten any specific anecdotes.