When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
Henny Youngman
RIP....go and join your squadron mates, from all nations, who have gone before you and who are waiting on the other side.
OBIO
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Sorry to hear this. Seen him at Oshkosh this year. He lived a long life, cannot ask for much more.
RIP Gunther
If government was the answer, it was a stupid question!
The interview at Smashing Time's link was interesting. I'll gladly live to age 91 if I can keep my sh*t together as well as Gen. Rall. I've noticed that older Navy fighter guys are also a pretty lively bunch, still able to have a drink or two and tell sea stories like they happened yesterday. Must be the O2 and the occasional adrenalin surges that give you an extra lease on life.
I noticed he used the nickname "Heinie" for the He-111, that's the kind of thing you seldom notice in historical book narratives.
A legend has passed on...the end of an era. Sad. RIP Gunther.
Mark
"Soon to be Expat"
This truly is sad. Being a huge German WW2 fighter nut, I've read so much about this man. An outstanding pilot has passed to join his brothers in arms...RIP
Sad news, indeed.. Rest in peace, Gunther...
"lucky man" indeed. RIP
Respect to the man, but not the regime he fought for.
Blue skies Bundesluftwaffe General Rall.
RIP, sir.
I always enjoyed his interviews in the Wings of the Luftwaffe series on the Military Channel.
"Hornets by mandate, Tomcats by choice!"
Read of his passing as I was listening to the soundtrack from Battle of Britain. Appropriate.
- H52
A tad high and a tad hot is better than a tad low and a tad slow - H52
RIP Guenther Rall
Years ago I got a signed copy of his book. Great reading.
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