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show tickets that's patron dot com slash we have ways We dropped up bombs near Munich and turned off the target back for England.

As deep as I could see into Germany, the sky was stained with smoke from the targets,

scattered around, smashed and missing and burning.

We were going home.

Home is when the props stopped spinning.

I looked around, very tired.

From up there it all looks so green and beautiful, and what we had done so sort of horrible.

We got our first look at fighters on that Munich hall. There were ring around the roses on all sides for part of the time.

Hell of a scramble out at nine o'clock, Chrome called up. We couldn't tell 109s from P51s or

fuck a wolfs. We couldn't tell which or nine's from P51's or Fucker Wolves. We couldn't tell which

side was winning or what kind went down. They looked like they were playing around

and then one broke off in a dive that ended when it hit the ground.

Jesus!

Sharp said.

Did you see that?

The explosion died away to a bloody glow.

Somebody was dead down there.

All the way in from the Rhine it was like that and that immaculate American accent

yeah I mean I was I was transported there yeah so where was I was I was Virginia

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