That's awesome. I think you are pretty much a badass for strapping on a
Buff and flying into some nasty stuff, but these guys were even more
badass, not having "modern" gadgets and radar and sensors and such, and
flying beat-up patched-up planes on those missions every day. Seems
like air war then was a lot less "stand-off" than it is today, again not
to diminish in any way the guys who do that stuff now but it just seems
like it so much more up close and visceral. Just hearing some stories
from my pilot neighbor was hair-raising (and I have no hair! Well, I
guess I had a bit then...). I think I mentioned too, my uncle was on
the USS Bush that got kamikazeed and sunk, he survived after floating
around in the water for quite a while. "It was just what we did" he
says. unh huh. I think he just passed 90yo and is still going pretty
strong so I guess he had some good mojo going on that day too.
BTW how are y'all doing up there with the flooding? Saw some pics of
Kinston and around there and it was really bad. Real bad down here in
SC in some places too, right now the rivers are flooding from all the
runoff, that takes several days to work itself down to the ocean. Full
moon high tides this weekend are not helping. Seems like it is even
worse than a year ago.
--R
On 10/15/16 2:24 PM, WILTON via Mercedes wrote:
'Reminds me: I was in 8th Air Force at Robins AF, GA, and here at
Seymour Johnson AFB, NC.
Lt. Gen. Frank Armstrong, from my hometown, Nashville, NC (born 15 or
20 mi. away, but claimed Nashville, where his sister lived), helped
establish 8th Air Force in England in 1942.
The movie, "Twelve O'Clock High," is based on his actions. His part,
Frank Savage in the movie, is played by Gregory Peck.
I met 'im sitting on his sister's front porch one afternoon in 'bout
1948.
Wilton
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Subject: Re: [MBZ] 73 years ago today
Thanks for posting! I think there is a museum for The Mighty Eighth
off of I-95 down in Florida. I've often been tempted to stop there,
that temptation is now greater.
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Max Dillon
Charleston SC
'87 300TD
'95 E300
On October 14, 2016 5:49:25 AM EDT, Curley McLain via Mercedes
<mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
Was an bombing mission which incurred record losses, and Oct 14 became
know as Black Thursday.
http://www.historynet.com/world-war-ii-eighth-air-force-raid-on-schweinfurt.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Raid_on_Schweinfurt
60 of 291 planes were lost, and another 17 were so badly damaged that
they were scrapped ofter the mission. 22% of the men on the raid were
lost.
Remember today, the men of the USAAF who flow those missions and
especially those who were lost.
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