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    Preddy was a stone-cold stud...period.
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    "Reveille came just 20 minutes after Preddy hit the sack"

    He had no sleep AND threw-up in his oxygen mask

    S!
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    Great story!

    But its' glaringly apparent that even Il-2s rookie setting cannot be compared with the pilots he was up against.
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    Originally posted by Metatron_123:
    Great story!

    But its' glaringly apparent that even Il-2s rookie setting cannot be compared with the pilots he was up against.
    That is true... also I remember one Soviet pilot shooting down 9 or so Ju-87s on one day, he perished soon after that. However Preddy wasn't flying against bombers or some sort of inferior aircraft; Bf-109 & FW-190 were extremely dangerous aircraft of their time. Therefore his achievement is highly remarkable.
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    Originally posted by TgD Thunderbolt56:
    Preddy was a stone-cold stud...period.
    Yes, one must be really cold-blooded to do some stuff like that, that is mark of the great fighter pilots.
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    We don't know enough about those pilots to make a judgement call. We only get to see the last few seconds where he gets on their 6 and lets them have it. Who knows what the rest of the fight was like?
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    There is also the incident of FAF Lt Jorma Sarvanto shooting down 6 DB-3's in 4-5 minutes in his Fokker D.XXI during the Winter War.
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    considering 80 percent or whatever pilots never saw the plane that shot them down, id say its a safe bet that most of these never saw him either.

    bad sa is all that says about their flying skills, nothing more.
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    George Preddy and several others were the things of legend that I grew up reading and daydreaming about. I just wished that I could have flown with them. This sim is the closest I will ever get.
    Preddy's Six was a household phrase growing up, at least in my house
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