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Description
Mr. Warren differentiates between how ground and air forces might view targeting the enemy. He also compares the perspectives of ground and air forces in terms of proximity to the enemy.
Transcription
The army people were looking at people they were going to shoot at, whereas in the air force, I think most fighter pilots will tell you this that in the air force our idea was to shoot that airplane down. I never said to myself, “Well, I’m going to kill that man.” My idea was, “I’m going to shoot that airplane down.” It was a different sort of different and to show you the other extreme, later on when we were on the continent and we were up in Holland we had an exchange period with the army. And an army officer would come and live with us for a bit and some of our people would go forward and live with the army for a bit. And we found this very interesting but the people that went forward to the army they said, “God, you know what, these people up there, you’re up there and only about 150 feet away there’s Germans walking around and they’re right there in front of you. And this impressed the air force people, like myself and yet the army people when they went into our briefing, we had the map on the wall and the CO would say, “Well here’s the area we’re gonna sweep today.” The fellas said, “Do you know that’s 70 miles behind the front line, you’re 70 miles behind the front line. I don’t want to go there!”