Danny yr. 11609
"Any idea where the Vengeance quotation appears"?
The incident happened (I think) at a field near Oran early 1943. Bob was test flying anything and everything that came out of the packing cases (so it was probably the first time he had met a VV).
Try googling Bob Hoover/Vultee Vengeance and read the <airportjournals.com> articles. It is certainly recounted in the Bob Hoover chapter of "In Defence of Freedom" by Wolfgang W E Samuel.
IanBB
PS Hoover’s childhood hero, Jimmy Doolittle, once called him “the greatest stick and rudder man who ever lived.”