Riding Crop

Prisoner of War 1944

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It was the winter of 1944; I was an Army Air Corps P-51 Pilot providing air cover over the mountains of France protecting bombers going in and out of Germany on Raids. After a successful mission, I was heading back to my base when two FW190's jumped me. I took two shots in my engine and started to lose altitude with the engine on fire. I slide back my canopy and bailed out of the cockpit.