m: Rich Thomas via Mercedes
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> Sent: Thursday, September 3, 2015 10:40 AM
> Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: C-47 glider towing
>
> Wait! WAIT! Are you dissing The Duke? What are you, some kinda g.d.
> commie pinko red? Come on, boy,
Have you seen him playing Genghis
Khan?http://cdn.zmescience.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/johnwayne-art.jpg
-Curt
From: Rich Thomas via Mercedes
To: mercedes@okiebenz.com
Cc: Rich Thomas
Sent: Thursday, September 3, 2015 10:40 AM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: C-47 glider towing
Wait
Wait! WAIT! Are you dissing The Duke? What are you, some kinda g.d.
commie pinko red? Come on, boy, speak up! IMA TAWKIN TA YOU DO
YOU HATE ELVIS TOO
What is this world coming to
--R
On 9/3/15 10:17 AM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote:
From a cinematography standpoint "The
n college (film school remember) after I'd make a
trailer for "Shaving Ryan's Privates"
-Curt
From: Dan Penoff via Mercedes
To: Okie Benz
Cc: Dan Penoff
Sent: Thursday, September 3, 2015 10:22 AM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: C-47 glider towing
I would agree.
From a p
o, again typical of his acting style
and the time.
-Curt
From: Dan Penoff via Mercedes
To: Okie Benz
Cc: Dan Penoff
Sent: Thursday, September 3, 2015 10:03 AM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: C-47 glider towing
As someone mentioned previously, if you ever watched “The Longest Day”, whic
I would agree.
From a purely historical standpoint, and as far as getting a really good
overview of the scale of the operation, “The Longest Day” does a good job I
think.
“Saving Private Ryan” is good, to, but the realism is sort of jarring. That’s
not a bad thing, just an observation.
Dan
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> Cc: Mitch Haley
> Sent: Thursday, September 3, 2015 9:49 AM
> Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: C-47 glider towing
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>
>> On September 2, 2015 at 11:29 PM Scott Ritchey via Mercedes
>> wrote:
>> I am surprised that any American di
ng on kids and their
weird music. It reads like it was written yesterday.
-Curt
From: Mitch Haley via Mercedes
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Sent: Thursday, September 3, 2015 9:49 AM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: C-47 glider towing
> On September 2, 2015 at 11:
> On September 2, 2015 at 11:29 PM Scott Ritchey via Mercedes
> wrote:
> I am surprised that any American did not know about this effort but
> I guess much has changed since I went to school. But maybe that explains
> much.
My memory is no longer fantastic, but the only military gliders I rem
"I guess much has changed since I went to school. But maybe that explains
much." Scott Ritchey
I nominate that for the okiebenz hall of notable quotes. (or is
that quotable notes?)
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The most widely-used US glider in WWII was the Waco CG-4 with 15 seats. The
larger CG-10 could carry almost 11K lb of cargo (like two howitzers). These
were basically one-time-use throw-away aircraft, a far cry from today's sail
planes. I am surprised that any American did not know about this e
My uncle was killed in one in Belgium. Great soaring museum near big flats
NY has one on display. Big wooden hulk.
On Sep 2, 2015 2:50 PM, "Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes" <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> Wow, this is the first I heard of gliders during WWII. I wonder what the
> carrying capaci
There must have been a lot of gliders if all that's all they could carry.
On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 3:29 PM, Curly McLain via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> Watch "The Longest Day." Pretty good fictional depiction of the problem
>> with gliders, plus, the Duke...
>> -Curt
>>
>
>
> ooh!
Watch "The Longest Day." Pretty good fictional depiction of the
problem with gliders, plus, the Duke...
-Curt
ooh! Good movie, but I like the Quiet Man and McClintock better.
BTW: go see the new John Wayne Birthplace Visitors Center! Way cool!
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Watch "The Longest Day." Pretty good fictional depiction of the problem with
gliders, plus, the Duke...
-Curt
From: Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
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Sent: Wednesday, September 2, 2015 2:50 PM
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Wow, this is the first I heard of gliders during WWII. I wonder what the
carrying capacity was of the largest glder?
On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 12:03 AM, Curly McLain via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> One of my uncles was a glider pilot in WWII in Europe. He barely survived
>> the crash
One of my uncles was a glider pilot in WWII in Europe. He barely survived
the crash landing, and it was over 40 years later before he would get in
another aircraft.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m0qJ2thQ7c
45 min about WWII gliders
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There was a show on PBS last night about the Battle of the Bulge, was
pretty good. Showed some old movies of gliders landing and crashing in
France, trying to drop in more men and supplies. Those things were
pretty much matchsticks with some fabric around them. Saw one that
landed OK then hit
OK Don, (quoter of Sam Clemons and WIll Rogers) sez: One of my
uncles was a glider pilot in WWII in Europe. He barely survived
the crash landing, and it was over 40 years later before he would get in
another aircraft.
There is an audio recording of Lee Cline of WHO Radio interviewing a
guy
ocess.
>
> -Original Message- From: OK Don via Mercedes
> Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2015 7:06 PM
> To: Mitch Haley ; Mercedes Discussion List
> Cc: OK Don
> Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: C-47 glider towing
>
> Good one. I'd read about the development of this procedure befo
process.
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From: OK Don via Mercedes
Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2015 7:06 PM
To: Mitch Haley ; Mercedes Discussion List
Cc: OK Don
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: C-47 glider towing
Good one. I'd read about the development of this procedure before, but
hadn't seen a m
Good one. I'd read about the development of this procedure before, but
hadn't seen a movie of it in action.
It makes me think that is we did this today, a glider club could launch
sailplanes twice as fast as they do with the tow plane landing after each
tow - they could just circle around, constan
For the military aviation buffs:
http://warisboring.com/articles/the-snatch-method-was-one-crazy-way-to-make-a-glider-fly/
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