Life confession heroes of World War II and touching story about his return with Visa on the battlef

Life confession heroes of World War II and touching story about his return with Visa on the battlefield in order as soon as possible to see his great love Virginia brings Zdravko Reić. Photos courtesy of Mel Hays private albums
American pilot, Lt. Col. Clayton Melvin Hays, a veteran of World War II, now 90-year-old, slightly mobile, so that it serves a wheelchair, he returned after 68 years on Vis for the first time on 14 October 1944, see the place that is forced to land their hunters and so narrowly escaped. The story of the American pilots really is amazing, so interesting to certainly could record an exciting and dramatic movie.
- You can not even conceive of how many times in their memories experienced this forced landing, actually fall on a dirt runway island of Vis - said Mel Hays, vital American pilot, who three years ago had a hip replaced.
- Then I in Croatia, on Vis, sent his daughter Barbara new food trucks for sale and her husband Mark Johnson, I wanted to see that, for many Allied pilots, rescue island in the Adriatic Sea and the runway, which is now converted into vineyards. When they returned to Portland and told my experience, I had, at all costs, before I go out of this world to see Vis and family Valeria new food trucks for sale and Rocky Nicholas, whose hospitality I enjoyed ...
Clayton Mel Hays was a flight instructor, was preparing a fighter pilot in Kansas, new food trucks for sale at a military base Osawatomie, then, and I signed up for going to war in Europe. First he stopped by the house in Oregon, the hometown of Grant Pass to greet the parents and then he met Virginia, 20-year-old local beauty. It was love at first sight - it big, boundless, "which happens once in a lifetime".
Wait for me, I'll come back, we'll get married - promised 22-year-old pilot his lover, so he went to war in Europe. Americans have had their base in southern Italy, in Foggia, in the north at the foot of San Monte Gargano.
Mel Hays took off on his fourth mission, the hunter P 51 mustang, as a member of the 307th Squadron 31st hunting groups. The task was to escort and protect the bombers, flying fortress, who this morning went to hand over the burden of heavy bombs on military targets new food trucks for sale Olbersdorf and Blechhammer in southern Germany.
- They were faster than our Mustang, salvation we were looking for the run to the Adriatic Sea, so we did the usual procedure, we have rejected additional tanks for fuel, in order to get the speed. My God, then an amazing thing happened, I was shocked when the tank with my partner airplane landed on the stem of my fighter, refused to be, damaged my tail, in fact rudder.
American is informed by radio to their base, explained that barely holds the course, but you can not fly to San Severa. He has instructions: "It lands on the sea, our pick you up." She took his panic, because the pilot Hays could not swim:
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