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110 - The P-47 Thunderbolt and 362nd Fighter Group

The WW2 Podcast

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The Horrors of Parachute Failure

There was a lot of parachute failure. There's also instances where just in this maybe the reality for any airplane falling out of control out of the sky, you can get into a position on the airplane where you are aerodynamically stuck to the airframe. And sometimes getting out is not that easy. One of the guys in the book Ed Abdullah gets, he got hit and he tried to get the canopy open and it kept slamming shut on him. He actually lost his,. he lost one of his legs as a POW.

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