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LITTLE FRIEND by ANONYMOUS

First Line: THEN I HEARD THE BOMBER CALL ME IN
Last Line: LET'S GO HOME
Subject(s): AIR WARFARE;WORLD WAR II; SECOND WORLD WAR;
@3A woman visiting her son remembers what she has read on the
front page of her newspaper the week before, a conversation
between a bomber, in flames over Germany, and one of the
fighters protecting it:
Randall Jarrett@1

"Then I heard the bomber call me in:
'Little Friend, Little Friend,
I got two engines on fire.
Can you see me, Little Friend?'
I said, 'I'm crossing right over you.
Let's go home.'"


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