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Horses Don't Fly by Frederick Libby

Horses Don't Fly

by Frederick Libby
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  • Aug 1, 2000, 274 pages
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  • Jan 2002, 288 pages
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Throwing everything they have in the air from all their other fields, the Huns fill the sky between us and our home by the time we start for out lines.

Dropping down to a thousand feet above our last two bombers, we are in a position to see anyone attacking and set quick, if necessary. Our flight is in perfect formation, when a flight of Huns splits up and attacks from different direction. This is ideal for us, as we simply nestle down close to our lonesome bombers and pick the Hun off when they come in,.....

Excerpted from Horses Don't Fly by Frederick Libby. Copyright © 2000 by Frederick Libby. Excerpted by permission of Arcade Publishing. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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