ANGELS OR GREMLINS
By: Hogie309


I had a bad feeling in my stomach about going on the 'bomber escort' mission, even before Bill and I took off to meet up with the bomb group.

Just before the Me 109's and 110's came in to swoop down upon the bomb group, like falcons on a flock of geese, my Warhawk's engine sputtered and then quit ! I had to glide down onto an open Belgian field that I saw below us when we passed over.

I broke out the 'emergency tool kit' and began to mess around down there, under my bird's nose. I couldn't even get the freakin' engine panel off !! I beat the plane with the wrench and then I cried. . .

I hear someone yelling to me and I look over the wing of plane. I see a GI with a Thompson and another GI's carrying a typewriter and a camera ! I tell them to come on over and I find out that one guy's a Lt. and the other guy is Ernie Pyle, the war correspondent.

Maybe my engine conked out because of a Gremlin. . . or maybe, it was an Angel that allowed my motor to crap out, because I would've died up there in the clouds . . . I don't know which one to believe sir :)

Respectfully Yours sir, Cpt. Hogancamp
































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