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96 C<strong>RUEL</strong> <strong>SK</strong>Y was asking me about the plane, our base, and what had happened to the remaining crew, but I kept shrugging my shoulders, and shaking my head,
The Bail Out 97 "The questioning began: 'What kind of plane; how many engines; how many men in the crew; how many bailed out, etc.?' "She giggled foolishly after each question and each of my replies~ '1 can't answer that.' The officer looked on in disgust. Her eyes opened wide with awe when I remarked my home was Hollywood. Becoming bolder, I said, 'You're kind of cute.' She burst into a fit of laughter ending the interrogation. "As I sat on the ground, I looked up to see a familiar uniform advancing toward me under guard. 1 drew a long breath overwhelmed with relief at the sight of a friendly face. He was a First Lieutenant, a pilot of one of the planes that had bombed Kassel that morning. "Our guards were to accompany us on foot to a town twelve kilometers away. At first they kept the Lieutenant and me walking at a considerable distance apart, but after the first hour, we had decreased the distance enough to talk to each other in pidgin English. It was four hours before we met five military police of the Luftwaffe. We rode for hours, passed a large airfield, stopped in a small village where another American prisoner was taken aboard, and eventually reached a 'dulag' camp. "At the dispensary there I received some inadequate medical attention and was taken to the guardhouse, stripped and given a thorough search. Here I consumed a cup of cold ersatz coffee and one small morsel of black bread, and was pushed into a cold, damp cell. Almost immediately, I fell into a dead sleep." Tail gunner Raymond Ray (WARMAN crew) "I waited until I fell through the clouds to get clear of the battle and pulled the ripcord. I was hanging in my chute when an FW-190 passed, climbing back up through the clouds. Then there was total silence; it was a strange sensation. The first sound 1 heard was a dog barking. I saw a small village below and 20 or 30 people were looking at me as I came down. We knew that civilians often killed flyers when they caught them so I felt sure this was my last day to live. 1 thought of my parents and two brothers and felt sorry when they received the telegram that told them I was missing in action. I landed at the edge of a small village. The ground was hard and I was barefoot. I was hit three times in the left arm.
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CRUEL SKY 4 PREFACE My name is Luc
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CRUEL SKY 6 I had to wait until Mar
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CRUEL SKY 8 disposed than others to
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10 CRUEL SKY Also: Bill Dewey, Pres
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18 CRUEL SKY Second Lieutenant Carr
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20 CRUEL SKY The navigators got a d
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22 CRUEL SKY had just been repacked
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24 CRUEL SKY Crew integrity was som
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26 CRUEL SKY "I introduced myself a
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28 CRUEL SKY pencils, plotter, and
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Page 53 and 54: The fight 47 Chapter 3 THE FIGHT (I
Page 55 and 56: The fight 49 disbelief of what was
Page 57 and 58: J Thejight 51 The ship went down ea
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Page 61 and 62: The fight 55 The SEEDS crew A fligh
Page 63 and 64: The fight 57 Sergeant Charles Graha
Page 65 and 66: The fight 59 When an FW -190 attack
Page 67 and 68: Thejight 61 time to bailout." "The
Page 69 and 70: The fight 63 The force of the explo
Page 71 and 72: The fight 65 The BRUCE crew Twenty
Page 73 and 74: The fight 67 to look at the holes i
Page 75 and 76: Thejight 69 coming down from the fl
Page 77 and 78: The fight 71 brought confinnation,
Page 79 and 80: The fight 73 from going out of cont
Page 81 and 82: Thejight 75 bullets and then he sud
Page 83 and 84: The fight 77 shell hit the top turr
Page 85 and 86: The fight 79 the fuel transfer cont
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Page 89 and 90: The Bail Out 81 Chapter 4 THE BAILO
Page 91 and 92: The Bail Out 83 Pilot Raphael Carro
Page 93 and 94: The Bail Out 85 "The jailer was qui
Page 95 and 96: The BailOut 87 Left waist gunner Wa
Page 97 and 98: The Bail Out 89 "About 40 minutes l
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Page 101 and 102: The Bail Out 93 cord which would op
Page 103: The Bail Out 95 godly. With reinfor
Page 107 and 108: The BailOut 99 Tail gunner Frank T.
Page 109 and 110: The Bail Out 101 "After a few minut
Page 111 and 112: The Bail Out 103 obviously a projec
Page 113 and 114: The Bail Out 105 the Jerries wanted
Page 115 and 116: The Way Back 107 Chapter 5 THE WAY
Page 117 and 118: The Way Back 109 navigator. Everyth
Page 119 and 120: The Way Back III flak opened up on
Page 121 and 122: The Way Back 113 storm of shells. A
Page 123 and 124: The Way Back 115 landing. Pilot Jac
Page 125 and 126: The Way Back 117 The SWOFFORD crew
Page 127 and 128: The Way Back 119 calling out all la
Page 129 and 130: The Way Back 121 MORE AFTERMATH Lie
Page 131 and 132: The Way Back 123 could not sleep. A
Page 133 and 134: The Aftermath 125 Chapter 6 THE DA
Page 135 and 136: The Aftermath 127 33 out of39 (sic)
Page 137 and 138: The Aftermath 129 Raymond Ray: (A p
Page 139 and 140: The Aftermath 131 sounded like ciga
Page 141 and 142: The Aftermath 133 most I could eat
Page 143 and 144: The Aftermath 135 later that I had
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152 CRUEL SKY S/Sgt. 1. A. Reardon,
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