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Old 18th October 2006, 13:32
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Re: Luftwaffe Loss ...a P38 Lightning

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Originally Posted by Alex Smart View Post
At any rate, please trash in the dubstin any reference to Martin Caidin's "Guido Rossi", which was nothing more than the expanded version of a B-series tale involving wife of US bomber pilot going to bed with that Italish fictional character and then with the betrayed pilot managing to get his revenge by shooting down the P-38 with a YB-40... pityful, pathetic garbage, which shouldn't be touched even with pliers...

I haven't got a clue about this, what this all about , some new film or other ?
To be precise, it was a novel titled (literally): "One of our fighters is shooting us down!" by Glenn Infield, published in early post-war years by an aviation magazine and whose plot was exactly as reported. This tale apparently fascinated Caidin, who made the story his own and proposed it again under his label...

It may sounds crazy but this is how it went...
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