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Show HARRY A. MOYER o ember 22, 2002 And so, yeah, it was a big thing. You know, you didn t get that many opp rtuniti in a way. I only ran across about five or six times that I ran across aerial combats. It very rare in our area at that time. So then we were pretty well busy with Italy, just dive bombing and strafing in front of the troops and all that sort of stuff. BEN: Have you taken any hits at this point, do you have any holes in your plane? HAR: Well, just a few. I was pretty well blessed. I was almost charmed, I must say. BEN: So no damage. Did your flying improve, do you think? Do you get better as time goes on, or are you just kind of at a level, at a peak performance, and you just maintain it type of thing? HAR: Well, yeah, I don't know. I was always pretty good. In a situation like that, luck and where you're at is so important. Like Gonzalez, he got shot down by a P-38 - it could have been me, it could have been somebody else. Who knows! Who knows what the hell happens in situations like that, or why somebody else is shot down or not, or why Franco went off instead of me? I don't know! BEN: Were you a religious person? HAR: Well, yeah, I've always had a ... BEN: Did that come into play at all, during your combat experience? HAR: I don't think so. My mom always- we had four boys in the Air Force at the same time- my mom always prayed for us, she said. I always just felt confident. I don't think that anybody wore their religion on their sleeve, so to speak. Especially the fighters. We had a job to do. Maybe more so with the bombers, because they had a little bit more of a 68 |
