"HEY PILOT DUDE - COME ON OUT, WE'RE AMERICANS"

He and his wingman headed out of Baghdad and sought American lines.

"It was physically hard (to fly the plane), Ewald said. "I was manipulating everything with all the muscles in my body. I had flight control problems, I had engine problems, I had fuel-flow problems, I had hydraulic problems … not to mention that I had an airplane that was disintegrating.

I looked back once and I could see little parts falling off the engine and I thought, 'I really don't know what that is, but I think I need it.'"

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