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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;OldGoldGuy, post: 2105379, member: 72697&quot;]My grandfather was stationed in the same area. All of them. A bit in Egypt and North Africa too. Worked on some high ranking general or admirals personal aircraft. Followed along with him and kept the plane in tip top shape. Luckily didnt see any front line combat himself, just the disasters flying back in, or limping back in really. </p><p><br /></p><p>Told me a story about a buddy of his from training came back in and the plane was in bad shape, on a temporary airstrip right in the middle of a jungle. Bad conditions no matter how you look at it. Plane had no landing gear. Guy tried to slide into home plate. Actually made the landing work, but the plane burst into flames, and my grandfather, and two other pilots or mechanics wouldn&#039;t leave him in the cockpit. Plane blew up; aside from some burns, and some broken bones, he only lost parts of 2 fingers. Pilot didn&#039;t make it. Last thing he remembers before waking up in a hospital was the pilot telling him to just leave him. I have his silver wings, his tfillin, and his peace dollar he carried with him through the war. Grampa was my best friend that I ever had, or will have. In the 20 years I had with him, he never yelled once. When I got into some trouble as a teen, I called him, not my buddies, or parents, or sibling. When we traveled, we never went somewhere and someone at some point didn&#039;t come up behind him and yell &quot;Mackey baby, is that you???&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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