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Old 2 May 2002, 06:32 PM   #118 (permalink)
Billy_Bishop
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Is it necessary to accept without question such claims just so the dramatic legend can be perpetuated? *Surely there is some middle ground here between paragon and cheat?
Let me say again, that I don't think that Bishop ACTUALLY shot down 72 enemy machines, balloons or gooney birds.

I do think he made his claims in good faith, however mistaken he might have been. But I don't think he cheated. Neither do I think he was a paragon of virtue either. I think the last time anyone remotely close to being like walked this earth was around circa 1 A.D.

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