SUMMER OF HELL

Life and death of the Pumas

LT. MIHALY (MICHAEL) KARATSONYI, JAMES P. BUSHA, Michael Karatsonyi

“I could see the handwriting on the wall and I knew we were going to lose the war when I watched helplessly as over 1,200 American bombers and fighters flew over Hungary. What were we to do with only 40 of us in our tired old Me 109s? It was the beginning of the end for the Pumas during that dreadful summer of 1944.” Learning the ropes in the Me 109 I remember growing up in Hungary and thinking we were stuck between a rock and a hard place when World War II broke out. My father had been a veteran of World War I and was taken prisoner by the Russians, so I grew up listening to his horror stories of being a POW in Siberia. Needless to say,…

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