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stephen · 17 January 2001, 06:18 AM

If you don't mind, I'd like to comment more on your comments than your questions. You seem to have read the book with none of the previous biases that afflict most EVR threads. Sometimes the justifiable criticisms against him seem to devolve into a total dismissal from the ranks of the truly great aces of the war.

EVR was successful in nearly every venture he tried, and still had amazing physical stamina and reflexes even as a middle aged man (like when he was lost at sea in WWII). His score per his time at the front (ear infection, yadda yadda) is up there with the best of them and I think your comparison with McCudden in style and attitude is a valid one.

I'm not the world's biggest EVR fan and I still believe he got two or three claims that should have belonged to his wingmen, but I think he is sometimes overlooked in his rightful place as one of the top, great pilots of the war.

17 January 2001, 06:18 AM	#2
stephen Forum Ace Join Date: Aug 1998 Location: USA. One Nation, Under Surveillance. Posts: 2,923	If you don't mind, I'd like to comment more on your comments than your questions. You seem to have read the book with none of the previous biases that afflict most EVR threads. Sometimes the justifiable criticisms against him seem to devolve into a total dismissal from the ranks of the truly great aces of the war. EVR was successful in nearly every venture he tried, and still had amazing physical stamina and reflexes even as a middle aged man (like when he was lost at sea in WWII). His score per his time at the front (ear infection, yadda yadda) is up there with the best of them and I think your comparison with McCudden in style and attitude is a valid one. I'm not the world's biggest EVR fan and I still believe he got two or three claims that should have belonged to his wingmen, but I think he is sometimes overlooked in his rightful place as one of the top, great pilots of the war. __________________ There will never be concentration camps in America. We'll call them something else.