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the aircraft shimmering in the haze, waiting to become sabres or coffins.
“We followed her as she took off, climbed and wheeled, flinging back the sun. One B-17 is not like another. Each has its crotchets and its graces. Once it has absorbed its share of lives and deaths it can live, be loved and die.”
― The Fall of Fortresses: The Classic Account of One of the Most Daring and Deadly Air Battles of WWII
― The Fall of Fortresses: The Classic Account of One of the Most Daring and Deadly Air Battles of WWII
“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
― The Dharma Bums
― The Dharma Bums
“Mechanical things when they are grand as plumed Fortresses flashing in the morning become endowed with divine invincibility.”
― The Fall of Fortresses: The Classic Account of One of the Most Daring and Deadly Air Battles of WWII
― The Fall of Fortresses: The Classic Account of One of the Most Daring and Deadly Air Battles of WWII
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