John Rossi
John Rossi
japanese knows several shared shooting took
Sometimes several (of us) were shooting the same Japanese fighter.Who knows which one took it down, and we just shared the result,
board brother inspired john life north older short
John inspired me to 'take a run' at the board in North Merrick. 'I think you could do it,' he said, ... John was in my life a short time, but he was like the older brother I always wanted.
knew last six war
I thought the war would be over in six months, ... if I knew it would last as it did, I would be going back to the navy.
dangerous flew hard time trips
I don't have time to think about fears, ... I have to concentrate. I flew over 700 trips in China, it's hard to say which one was more dangerous than the other.
far fighting fights-and-fighting japanese run shoot turn
We were not fighting the Zeros, ... our P-40 were better than the Japanese 97 fighters. We could run faster, far enough to turn around to come back and shoot them.