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From: hhm@ihlpy.att.com (Herschel H Mayo)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: "MEMPHIS BELLE" (was "Southern Belle")
Summary: short story
Message-ID: <1990Jul13.015819.4152@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 13 Jul 90 01:58:19 GMT
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From: hhm@ihlpy.att.com (Herschel H Mayo)
These articles reminded me of a somewhat funny incident that happened to
me. One Saturday morning, I was underneath my car working on the trans-
mission and enjoying a couple of beers, when I heard the characteristic
drone of a multi-engine piston plane. While wrenching away, the thought 
occurred to me, "Boy that sounds like a B 17, ha, ha wouldn't it be fun-
ny if it was."  The sound got really loud, so I slid out to take a look.
Really low overhead, in all its military glory, was a B-17. I, somewhat
shocked, did one of those scenes where I looked at the plane, then looked
at the can of beer and threw it away. After that I quickly went inside to
get out of the heat.  That night on the news, I was relieved to hear that
others had reported seeing it on its way to an airshow. 

                                               Larry Mayo