Re: Langhorne Sportsman Race circa 1951
Thanks so very much for that excellent movie!!! As a lifetime reader of WW2, I watch something like this and can't help but wonder what those guys were doing 6-10 years prior. I can picture a former P38 pilot and a waist gunner from a B17 battling it out on the track. All of this repaired in the pits by a guy who cut his teeth wrenching on tanks in horrendous heat or cold. Today we look at this and see how dangerous racing was back then, but that waist gunner now works in the back room at a radiator shop and for 38 laps he is alive again.
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