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Show HARRY A. MOYER HAR: Yeah, yeah. BEN: Four man tent, is that what we're looking at, or bigger? ovember 22, 2002 HAR: We had four men in it, to a tent, yeah. Actually, we weren't really in tents, we were living in an olive grove. We had an olive grove there, and we had out cots, mosquito nettings, and we just set up in an area. And they had a lot of German prisoners at the time there, and Italian - boy, they took the Italians away - there was a lot of debris. Everybody had a carbine gun, a Mauser, a jeep, a BMW, motorcycles were no good. We had a big old German armored, German truck that would pull the "88," so there' s a lot of stuff around, and of course that battle had already been fought. But we were flying to Pantelleria. So we had a lot of getting used to, ourselves. BEN: Was there - did they introduce - like you said, you had a friend to introduce you to things, but did everyone get a shake down, a base procedure, that kind of thing, was there any kind of, "This is how it is here"? HAR: Yeah, it was kind of, the fighter group up close is very informal, very loose and lax. Yeah, so I went up with our flight leader, which was B.K. Watts, so he took me up to introduce me to the area, and to evaluate me, I guess. So we flew up over Tunis to and just saw the stuff and did aerobatics and that sort of thing. Actually picked me up as his wingman. BEN: So he liked your flying then, probably? HAR: I think so, yeah. Because B.K. and I flew quite a bit later on, as I did with Alex. So yeah, so we had an experience then of our first missions that I flew was against 38 |
