PeterL
re: application to join Albatroid’s gang
Albatroid says
“It seems to me that many of the people who come along 60 or 80 years later and give Ace's recognized scores the "Flat Earth Society" revisionist treatment are simply motivated by jealousy.”
These pilots were brave people and I refuse to believe that they were all a bunch of liars concerning their exploits.”
Is enquiry and skepticism jealousy ? Is allocating the same level of honesty to all pilots justified ? Is a brave man necessarily honest ?
Why does
Billy Bishop get up everyone’s nose so much more than the other Entente overclaimers ? I have my theories. Why does he get up mine ? Self promotion. I congratulate Bishop on having survived but object to his holding himself out as having achieved what he apparently did not. The surviving WW1 combatants among my antecedents did not talk about their experiences and never boasted about their accomplishments. I disagree with Shooter here
“While combat vets are not always the most admirable of men, to suggest that they are pure frauds is simply not acceptable to me.”
I cannot see why a combat vet could not be a pure fraud. Out of combat, the vet is no different from John Citizen. In other spheres of their lives it may be different but in terms of honesty, those who fought are no different from those who did not.
Once you get beyond the pre pubescent pop star approach, Bishop threads are never boring.
Cheers
Vin