My legs were limp and I could not walk for a brief moment. It was hard to speak because of yelling over the frequency. It was a ghost town -there was no one around to help me. I used my arms to crawl over to the hangar. After about 20 minutes I made it there. When I was able to sit down on the bench I felt a sigh of relief. For a moment I closed my eyes and went to sleep.
The soft call of the morning birds always woke me up at around 6:30 in the morning. It took me a second to adjust to the blinding light that came through. "Hallo, Nick. Was machst du heute? Auftauchen!" A greedy voice yelled. I followed through and got up. It was my commander and he wasn't very pleased. He informed me again that I would be fighting at the border. This time it would be different -the border. He immediately sent three other men with me.
Within twenty minutes we were airborne. It feels good to fly, especially on a boring old Sunday morning. "Nicholas, Richtig!" Lieutenant Günter said. I told him thank you and spun my plane around. Whoever was flying that enemy plane was darn good. He knew how that plane moved. Just from seeing it I knew it was a Mig-28. He shot down one of the German pilots. "Nein! Auf Wiedersehen und Dankeschön Für alles!" The poor pilot's voice shook. I had to block out the thought of him and focus on what I was doing. There was a deeper voice within my head that just screamed there was something going on.
My plane twisted around in perfect aerobatics....
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Only For You
RomanceWhen war rages throughout the land two pilots find each other. They both hold the same passion: flying. Lieutenant Marion "Lynx" Wright is a stubborn female pilot that will do anything to push for her dreams of flight. When deployment strikes Marion...
