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May 20, 2014

Catching Flak


Flak comes from the German word for anti-aircraft fire - Flugabwehrkanone.

As a young man I worked with a WWII vet, a tail gunner in a B-17, who was shot down on his second mission over Nazi Germany and spent 18 months in a POW camp. He didn't like catching flak.