John Rossi Quotations

I don't have time to think about fears, ... I have to concentrate. I flew over 700 trips in China, it's hard to say which one was more dangerous than the other.

John inspired me to 'take a run' at the board in North Merrick. 'I think you could do it,' he said, ... John was in my life a short time, but he was like the older brother I always wanted.

I thought the war would be over in six months, ... if I knew it would last as it did, I would be going back to the navy.

Sure I was excited when shoot down the Japanese planes. I also felt I was lucky to get back, ... I didn't get injured. Only one bullet slipped through the edge of my finger.

We hoped there came more Japanese airplanes, ... then we can shoot more down. But it never happened.

We were not fighting the Zeros, ... our P-40 were better than the Japanese 97 fighters. We could run faster, far enough to turn around to come back and shoot them.

There is real trouble in the sector. We're looking at a pretty tepid market this year.

Sometimes several (of us) were shooting the same Japanese fighter.Who knows which one took it down, and we just shared the result,

there was a saying that goes you could follow the crashed airplanes across the Hump.

Chinese people are very friendly. When we shot down the Japanese fighters on the first mission, people gathered around and brought us flowers, fruit and decorations. It's quite touching because they really didn't have much else.