 | What do, or what did you do in the 'mob'?| SitRep Discuss What do, or what did you do in the 'mob'? in the Military Matters forums; Very true. Good Job for saving us.... |
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10-07-2005, 11:49 AM
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#91 | | Der Crewchief
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Country:  | Very true. Good Job for saving us.
__________________  US Army Blackhawk Crewchief 2000-2006 Classic ww2aircraft.net quotes: fly boy said: "isn't that the first jet bomber? becasue i have flown one in a flight sim before and i know how it handles" "wait what ok who made the b-2 crash come on people that messed up its a b-2" "ah yes the mistel those things are so annoying is games and in real life" | 
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10-07-2005, 11:59 AM
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#92 | | Konfused with a 'K'
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10-08-2005, 12:44 AM
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#93 | | Senior Member
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| something to think about
to p-38 pilot and to all the younger folks...
p-38 I want you to think about this, it is not a critique or slam...
you have taken the name of a type of plane and the pilots from the USAAC used in desperate missions in a desperate time...they were boys mostly, a little older than you are now...they should have been in high school or college thinking about girls or football or home or records or the lastest dance craze...instead they were sent, due to the need, and poorly undertrained, into the Pacific or Europe when men and women for the fascist mindset decided they had the best way and everyone else needed to die....the British were almost on their knees and being plummled and were dying by the droves, the French were furious at their leaders that surrendered basically without a fight while their women and kids were dying by the thousands; the Japanese, having watched AMERCIAN newsreals showing we were inferior mongrals and wouldn't/couldn't fight...so these young boys became men in a time in a time when the forces of fascism bet their racially superior men could beat the mongrel nations of the world under the idea of democracy...
They flew their p-38's over vast tracks of the Pacific with NO landmarks or real ability to fight....but they learned, and somehow those young American's, and British, and Australian and New Zealanders, etc...did it...against terrible odds and horrible conditions....many disappeared....
You go look up on the 'net' about my old US National Guard Divison, the 38th ID (they were orginally the 32nd ID) and their taking of the Owen Stanley Mountains....read about Sgt. Roger Young (not much older than you now went he died)....
Read about the rape of Nanking, and just what happened to the Aussies and Brits that surrendered to the Japanese...especially when the world 'mourns' Hiroshima....
Read what US Marine General 'Howling Mad' Smith said when he came ashore at Tarawa and saw the red beach flags just inches from a dead Marine's hand....
Or the brave men that took Pegasus Bridge....that NEVER quit....
Or the Aussie Coastwatchers, so many that disappeared....
Or those brave Germans that tried to STOP the war, and failed....and disappeared...
I want you all to think and remember....and wonder....and NEVER forget... | |
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10-08-2005, 07:07 AM
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#94 | | Der Crewchief
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Country: | Very good post there!
__________________ US Army Blackhawk Crewchief 2000-2006 Classic ww2aircraft.net quotes: fly boy said: "isn't that the first jet bomber? becasue i have flown one in a flight sim before and i know how it handles" "wait what ok who made the b-2 crash come on people that messed up its a b-2" "ah yes the mistel those things are so annoying is games and in real life" | |
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10-08-2005, 08:00 AM
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#95 | | Senior Member
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Country:  | But why are you telling me this? I already know that in every war people make heroic sacrifices just so other people may enjoy freedoms they probably never knew.
By the way today is my B-day so im 14 now....
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10-08-2005, 08:58 AM
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#96 | | Senior Member
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Country:  | Happy birthday P38 keep this up and your gonna be a wrinkley before you know it. :P
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10-08-2005, 09:41 AM
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#97 | | He who does not skim
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10-08-2005, 09:43 AM
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#98 | | Senior Member
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Country:  | Shut up, track, just because you're French no need to take it out on me. 
__________________ "When you go home tomorrow, don't expect anyone to know what you have been through. Even if they did know, most people probably wouldn't care anyway. Some of you may get the medals you deserve, many more of you will not. But remember this, all of you are now members of the front-line club, and that is the most exclusive club in the world." - Lt. Col. Matthew Maer CO 1st Battalion, the Princess of Wale's Royal Regiment. Camp Abu Naji, Oct. 2004  To those in that club. | |
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10-08-2005, 10:12 AM
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#99 | | "Shooter"
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10-08-2005, 10:14 AM
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#100 | | Senior Member
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Country: | Oh yes...happy birthday, 38 ...going to get drunk and throw yourself into a river? That's what I did on my 14th ...I slept all day on my 15th ...and 16th is a blur ...17th was boring ...18th is a blur.
__________________ "When you go home tomorrow, don't expect anyone to know what you have been through. Even if they did know, most people probably wouldn't care anyway. Some of you may get the medals you deserve, many more of you will not. But remember this, all of you are now members of the front-line club, and that is the most exclusive club in the world." - Lt. Col. Matthew Maer CO 1st Battalion, the Princess of Wale's Royal Regiment. Camp Abu Naji, Oct. 2004 To those in that club. | |
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10-08-2005, 10:54 AM
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#101 | | World Traveler
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10-08-2005, 12:07 PM
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#102 | | Senior Member
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10-08-2005, 12:38 PM
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#103 | | IP/Mech THE GREAT GAZOO
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10-08-2005, 04:32 PM
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#104 | | Senior Member
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| Happy Birthday....
"But why are you telling me this? I already know that in every war people make heroic sacrifices just so other people may enjoy freedoms they probably never knew." You are missing the point....
I don't know if you realize just how close we came to losing it all....If the Japanese wanted to, they EASILY could have invaded, we had NOTHING to stop them with....
Except for Stalingrad, the Germans would have linked up with the Japanese in India....
The Japanese hated the US so much and so badly they had a top secret mission using suicide submarine-launched aircraft to drop high explosive 'dirty bombs' on San Francisco and Los Angeles...this was excuted well before Hiroshima and the only reason why it was stopped was VJ day in Tokyo harbour...IT WAS IN ROUTE when the surrender was signed....
If not for your grandfathers and mine, I shudder to think of what could have, and almost did happen..... | |
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10-09-2005, 11:12 AM
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#105 | | Senior Member
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Country: | I have actually heard about that alon gwith the biological warfare weapons they would have dropped on Los Angeles or San Francisco
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