"Well, you know, we were all young bucks and we were indestructible - everybody felt that way. It would be somebody else, it won't be me, you know. I had several friends up here, but I was always confident that I could handle anything that happened and luckily nothing that I couldn't handle ever happened to me." John Pletcher, pilot, B-26, 73rd Bomb Squadron, 1941-43
![]() Courtesy John Pletcher, pilot, B-26, 73rd Bomb Squadron, 1941-43. ![]() Courtesy John Pletcher, pilot, B-26, 73rd Bomb Squadron, 1941-43. ![]() Courtesy John Pletcher, pilot, B-26, 73rd Bomb Squadron, 1941-43. ![]() Courtesy John Pletcher, pilot, B-26, 73rd Bomb Squadron, 1941-43. "So, the wing man called me and said, 'Hey Pletcher, you've got a hole in the side of your airplane.' I said, 'Yeah, we got a .50 caliber or something hit us.' And he didn't go ahead and explain that it was a big hole." John Pletcher, pilot, B-26, 73rd Bomb Squadron, 1941-43
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