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Originally Posted by divemonkie
There was a B-17 pilot who described flying missions as hours of tedium punctuated by moments of shear terror...I cant remember where I heard that but it sound bout right.
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Best evidence indicates that the phrase was first used to describe trench warfare in World War 1, when it was "Months of bordom etc).
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