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birdbarian Member Joined Oct 2004 Posts 11671 EE 100% (4) GA, USA	Posted: 11/22/2019 10:38:33 PM EDT [#3] Quote History Originally Posted By another_shooter: Cousin Eddie ("Bazooka Eddie") https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/920/Mari151_jpg-1168810.JPG View Quote 442nd?

13starsinax Cracker Joined May 2012 Posts 14489 EE 100% (114) FL, USA	Posted: 11/23/2019 11:52:31 AM EDT [#4] Attached File Attached File JU-88 tail markings Attached File Attached File
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Dog1 U.S. Rifle, Caliber .30, M1 Joined May 2001 Posts 55448 EE 100% (488) IN, USA	Posted: 11/23/2019 12:22:34 PM EDT [#5] The bottom picture - is that what I think it is sticking out underneath the tail? Are those twin cannons
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13starsinax Cracker Joined May 2012 Posts 14490 EE 100% (114) FL, USA	Posted: 11/23/2019 1:04:55 PM EDT [#6] Quote History Originally Posted By Dog1: The bottom picture - is that what I think it is sticking out underneath the tail? Are those twin cannons View Quote Flame throwers. https://billstclair.com/weaponsman.com/index.html%3Fp=6323 Attached File https://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=33151
	Originally Posted By mizzarley Can we all agree now that the D's and R's are the same fucks who are just pimping for control and tax dollars?

birdbarian Member Joined Oct 2004 Posts 11675 EE 100% (4) GA, USA	Posted: 11/23/2019 1:05:18 PM EDT [Last Edit: birdbarian] [#7] Quote History Originally Posted By Dog1: The bottom picture - is that what I think it is sticking out underneath the tail? Are those twin cannons View Quote Flamethrowers. https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-most-useless-weapon-used-in-WW2 ETA: beat like a rented mule

birdbarian Member Joined Oct 2004 Posts 11676 EE 100% (4) GA, USA	Posted: 11/23/2019 1:08:52 PM EDT [#8] Quote History Originally Posted By Dog1: The bottom picture - is that what I think it is sticking out underneath the tail? Are those twin cannons View Quote As a former squid, I was checking out the impressive number of ships sunk/damaged. I didn't even notice the nozzles/barrels until you pointed them out. That's some crazy shit right there.

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Flame throwers.
https://billstclair.com/weaponsman.com/index.html%3Fp=6323
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WTF... I remember reading about a proposal to use them in aerial combat but I never knew they actually tried it. Those wacky Germans

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Posted: 11/23/2019 2:23:10 PM EDT

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Originally Posted By birdbarian:

As a former squid, I was checking out the impressive number of ships sunk/damaged. I didn't even notice the nozzles/barrels until you pointed them out. That's some crazy shit right there.

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First time I seen it, I assumed cannons. Which some models did have those with electronic triggers operated by the pilots, I had it saved for this thread with the other photo. When I realized what it was, I giggled. I had the one conversation about them saved for further reading. That plane had sunk a lot of tonnage.
edit: and at least three aerial kills..

Also yes crazy Germans

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another_shooter Inflammation Joined Jan 2001 Posts 9394 EE 0% (0) CA, USA	Posted: 11/23/2019 3:13:44 PM EDT [#11] Quote History Originally Posted By birdbarian: 442nd? View Quote yes
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Is that a Ta-152 flying over that Spit or a distorted D-9 or D-13? Interesting photo.

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Is that a Ta-152 flying over that Spit or a distorted D-9 or D-13? Interesting photo.

A-2 or A-3 is my guess. Definitley an early BMW 801 version.

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Dog1 U.S. Rifle, Caliber .30, M1 Joined May 2001 Posts 55453 EE 100% (488) IN, USA	Posted: 11/23/2019 3:30:43 PM EDT [#14] Quote History Originally Posted By luv_the_huskers: Is that a Ta-152 flying over that Spit or a distorted D-9 or D-13? Interesting photo. View Quote Looks like it's distorted
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birdbarian Member Joined Oct 2004 Posts 11677 EE 100% (4) GA, USA	Posted: 11/23/2019 4:02:51 PM EDT [#15] Quote History Originally Posted By another_shooter: yes View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quote History Originally Posted By another_shooter: Originally Posted By birdbarian: 442nd? yes Thanks for posting the pic. Those guys had huge balls. Hope he did well after the war.

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Originally Posted By birdbarian:

Thanks for posting the pic. Those guys had huge balls. Hope he did well after the war.

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I don't know, I've been trying to find out. My Mom has pix of Eddie from about 1939-44. I'll look into the records more deeply. I know some of the guys she knew from Camp Shelby MS were KIA (my Mom was in Jerome AR, 90 miles from Shelby and part of the YWCA-USO hospitality group that met with the 442nd trainees). Here's another guy she knew: Banner Bob!

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Every day, about 100% of solutes leave the blood through the capillaries, and many cells leave the blood through the post capillary venules. This is homeostasis. Inflammation, in the most basic terms, is the increase in those activities.

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Originally Posted By another_shooter:

I don't know, I've been trying to find out. My Mom has pix of Eddie from about 1939-44. I'll look into the records more deeply. I know some of the guys she knew from Camp Shelby MS were KIA (my Mom was in Jerome AR, 90 miles from Shelby and part of the YWCA-USO hospitality group that met with the 442nd trainees). Here's another guy she knew: Banner Bob!
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You can request his service record from the National Archives. I was able to get information on both my Dad (Army Korea) and his Dad (Navy WWI). https://www.archives.gov/veterans

I had a Great Uncle on my Mom's side who served in the Pacific campaign. He came back with Malaria and a powerful thirst. It is too bad we didn't know how to help those guys back then.

Coopmandu Member Joined Mar 2002 Posts 2565 EE 100% (100) KS, USA	Posted: 11/23/2019 4:52:28 PM EDT [#18] USS Lexington at the Battle of the Coral Sea. I'm a student of the war in the Pacific and had never seen this one. Photo was supposedly found recently in a vets attic.

13starsinax Cracker Joined May 2012 Posts 14492 EE 100% (114) FL, USA	Posted: 11/23/2019 4:54:19 PM EDT [#19] Quote History Originally Posted By luv_the_huskers: Is that a Ta-152 flying over that Spit or a distorted D-9 or D-13? Interesting photo. View Quote It is just distorted, never seen it before.
	Originally Posted By mizzarley Can we all agree now that the D's and R's are the same fucks who are just pimping for control and tax dollars?

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USS Lexington at the Battle of the Coral Sea. I'm a student of the war in the Pacific and had never seen this one. Photo was supposedly found recently in a vets attic.

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That is a great picture. I never realized how tall the island was on the Lexington.

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13starsinax Cracker Joined May 2012 Posts 14493 EE 100% (114) FL, USA	Posted: 11/23/2019 4:56:55 PM EDT [#21] Quote History Originally Posted By Coopmandu: https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/21010/A716E5CB-CE86-410A-8A0C-2C38AB13CECC-1171044.jpg USS Lexington at the Battle of the Coral Sea. I'm a student of the war in the Pacific and had never seen this one. Photo was supposedly found recently in a vets attic. View Quote Full deck, cool picture
	Originally Posted By mizzarley Can we all agree now that the D's and R's are the same fucks who are just pimping for control and tax dollars?

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That is a great picture. I never realized how tall the island was on the Lexington.

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Originally Posted By Coopmandu:
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USS Lexington at the Battle of the Coral Sea. I'm a student of the war in the Pacific and had never seen this one. Photo was supposedly found recently in a vets attic.

That is a great picture. I never realized how tall the island was on the Lexington.

That's the original Lady Lex (CV 2). That's a very interesting superstructure and stack.

I got to see the second Lexington in Mobile, AL in '86 when she pulled in for an overhaul.

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Originally Posted By birdbarian:

That's the original Lady Lex (CV 2). That's a very interesting superstructure and stack.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/USS_Lexington_%28CV-2%29_leaving_San_Diego_on_14_October_1941_%2880-G-416362%29.jpg/1024px-USS_Lexington_%28CV-2%29_leaving_San_Diego_on_14_October_1941_%2880-G-416362%29.jpg

I got to see the second Lexington in Mobile, AL in '86 when she pulled in for an overhaul.

https://www.navysite.de/cv/cv16_7.jpg

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I saw her up close in 1990 at Pensacola right before she was decommissioned as a training carrier

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Originally Posted By birdbarian:

You can request his service record from the National Archives. I was able to get information on both my Dad (Army Korea) and his Dad (Navy WWI). https://www.archives.gov/veterans

I had a Great Uncle on my Mom's side who served in the Pacific campaign. He came back with Malaria and a powerful thirst. It is too bad we didn't know how to help those guys back then.

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For the nisei's in the 442nd, there was another location for records -- but I don't remember and I usually keep Googling until something pops up. Thanks for the National Archives tip, it is definitive and a great suggestion.
My uncle (married my Mom's sister after the war):

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Every day, about 100% of solutes leave the blood through the capillaries, and many cells leave the blood through the post capillary venules. This is homeostasis. Inflammation, in the most basic terms, is the increase in those activities.

22caliberKIDD Member Joined Nov 2012 Posts 3502 EE 100% (12) DEU	Posted: 11/24/2019 3:27:45 AM EDT [#25] USS Yorktown, late 1943, hangar deck. Guys in the background are watching a movie. Thought it was a great picture Attached File

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I saw her up close in 1990 at Pensacola right before she was decommissioned as a training carrier

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Originally Posted By birdbarian:

That's the original Lady Lex (CV 2). That's a very interesting superstructure and stack.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/USS_Lexington_%28CV-2%29_leaving_San_Diego_on_14_October_1941_%2880-G-416362%29.jpg/1024px-USS_Lexington_%28CV-2%29_leaving_San_Diego_on_14_October_1941_%2880-G-416362%29.jpg

I got to see the second Lexington in Mobile, AL in '86 when she pulled in for an overhaul.

https://www.navysite.de/cv/cv16_7.jpg

I saw her up close in 1990 at Pensacola right before she was decommissioned as a training carrier

i've been to see her a whole bunch of times since she's only about a 30min drive from me. been a while though, can't wait til my girls get old enough for me to take. for now i just get to look at her from the aquarium...

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Dog1 U.S. Rifle, Caliber .30, M1 Joined May 2001 Posts 55474 EE 100% (488) IN, USA	Posted: 11/24/2019 10:51:01 AM EDT [#29] Quote History Originally Posted By TexRdnec: i've been to see her a whole bunch of times since she's only about a 30min drive from me. been a while though, can't wait til my girls get old enough for me to take. for now i just get to look at her from the aquarium... View Quote I would like to see her again
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Originally Posted By 22caliberKIDD:
USS Yorktown, late 1943, hangar deck. Guys in the background are watching a movie.

Thought it was a great picture

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Very cool! You can see that same hangar deck today if you visit her in Charleston, SC. It is a fantastic museum ship.

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Originally Posted By 13starsinax:
Really cool pictures of that plane are out there. Never went to production, but would have been an odd carrier plane.

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Originally Posted By ACDer:
https://i.imgur.com/BZIZact.jpg

Navalized Stuka for use on the Carrier Graf Zeppelin.

Really cool pictures of that plane are out there. Never went to production, but would have been an odd carrier plane.

The Fiesler Fi-167 was the original torpedo plane that was supposed to be on the Graf Zeppelin

Kind of a neat uglyish airplane. Sort of a biplane Stuka, but without the (extreme) gull wings

*oops - someone else posted not long after the reply to post

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The Fiesler Fi-167 was the original torpedo plane that was supposed to be on the Graf Zeppelin
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3flKif1G1hI/VYr3mpvow1I/AAAAAAAAR7c/fCiMfJJQVLw/s1600/fi7.jpg

Kind of a neat uglyish airplane. Sort of a biplane Stuka, but without the gull wings

*oops - someone else posted not long after the reply to post

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That's what I was getting ready to say it looks like a biplane Stuka

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He was definitely a committed Kamikaze pilot to have had more than one mission!

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The fins in the small bombs under the wings are interesting.
What is between the fins? Whistles or smoke canisters/flares?

Oops that already answered too. Whistles

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Originally Posted By 22caliberKIDD:
USS Yorktown, late 1943, hangar deck. Guys in the background are watching a movie.

Thought it was a great picture

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Great pic. Those are some big freaking bombs.

I've spent ~a week on Yorktown camping with my son's and daughter's Troops. We watched Tora Tora Tora and The Final Countdown on our last trip. They converted the area under the forward elevator into a movie theater. I've been able to go all through that ship. If you've never been, it is a must see in Charleston, SC. Be prepared to spend the day and climb a lot of ladders if you want to see everything.

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Great pic. Those are some big freaking bombs.

I've spent ~a week on Yorktown camping with my son's and daughter's Troops. We watched Tora Tora Tora and The Final Countdown on our last trip. They converted the area under the forward elevator into a movie theater. I've been able to go all through that ship. If you've never been, it is a must see in Charleston, SC. Be prepared to spend the day and climb a lot of ladders if you want to see everything.

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Those are thousand-pound bombs...

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Originally Posted By birdbarian:
Great pic. Those are some big freaking bombs.

I've spent ~a week on Yorktown camping with my son's and daughter's Troops. We watched Tora Tora Tora and The Final Countdown on our last trip. They converted the area under the forward elevator into a movie theater. I've been able to go all through that ship. If you've never been, it is a must see in Charleston, SC. Be prepared to spend the day and climb a lot of ladders if you want to see everything.

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Originally Posted By 22caliberKIDD:
USS Yorktown, late 1943, hangar deck. Guys in the background are watching a movie.

Thought it was a great picture

https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/321106/D04BFF88-3E39-4DE0-8D83-B9BB86D3E76A_jpeg-1171783.JPG

Great pic. Those are some big freaking bombs.

I've spent ~a week on Yorktown camping with my son's and daughter's Troops. We watched Tora Tora Tora and The Final Countdown on our last trip. They converted the area under the forward elevator into a movie theater. I've been able to go all through that ship. If you've never been, it is a must see in Charleston, SC. Be prepared to spend the day and climb a lot of ladders if you want to see everything.

the_ak_kid was fucking a tour guide on the lexington years ago and she took us back into parts of the ship that aren't even on the hardhat tour, it was pretty cool hanging out of windows from rooms that looked like they'd been abandoned and unouched since. at the time she said that the tour guides would try to get a little deeper into the ship all the time. with no electricity or ventilation down there and most likely, flooded rooms i don't guess anybody will ever see all of it ever again.

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Dog1 U.S. Rifle, Caliber .30, M1 Joined May 2001 Posts 55480 EE 100% (488) IN, USA	Posted: 11/24/2019 1:51:23 PM EDT [#40] Quote History Originally Posted By saigamanTX: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-b6dNembpOrM/U0NUkwaGjVI/AAAAAAAAO3k/XEbBx5SDCwk/s1600/83988184.jpg View Quote Beautiful...
	Hansan: "This is a .30 caliber, gas operated, clip fed, semi-automatic rifle....." Soldier: "Look, you ain't sellin it to me, you're only showing me how it works."

Colt653 Diligentia, Vis, Celeritas Joined Feb 2001 Posts 24893 EE 100% (24) USA	Posted: 11/24/2019 2:03:56 PM EDT [#41] I remember the CV-16 Lexington in Pensacola when I was a kid. she was a landmark, easily seen from the 3 mile bridge. I miss her when I visit family there
	NRA Life Member USPSA-IPSC Phuc cancer I liked this place a lot better when it was a gun forum.

Dog1

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Posted: 11/24/2019 2:23:42 PM EDT

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Originally Posted By Derek45:

I remember the CV-16 Lexington in Pensacola when I was a kid.

she was a landmark, easily seen from the 3 mile bridge.

I miss her when I visit family there

https://www.navalaviationmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/P1710001.jpg

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The one and only time that I saw her she was docked right there and we were leaving from the Naval Air Museum

Hansan: "This is a .30 caliber, gas operated, clip fed, semi-automatic rifle....."
Soldier: "Look, you ain't sellin it to me, you're only showing me how it works."

Javak Call Sign: Meatbag Joined Jun 2001 Posts 17536 EE 100% (5) CA, USA	Posted: 11/24/2019 2:45:31 PM EDT [Last Edit: Javak] [#43] Quote History Originally Posted By saigamanTX: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-b6dNembpOrM/U0NUkwaGjVI/AAAAAAAAO3k/XEbBx5SDCwk/s1600/83988184.jpg View Quote My planes! The branches do nothing!
	Is It Schizoid Paranoia or Just Existential Blues?

TexRdnec Smartass Cracker Joined Dec 2002 Posts 31108 EE 100% (97) TX, USA	Posted: 11/24/2019 3:09:08 PM EDT [#44] Quote History Originally Posted By saigamanTX: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-b6dNembpOrM/U0NUkwaGjVI/AAAAAAAAO3k/XEbBx5SDCwk/s1600/83988184.jpg View Quote is that a guy fixing to take a bomb to the face? if so, that may be the coolest pic ever that didn't include tits
	SPECTRE This is the new participation trophy arfcom, not the old wild west arfcom Jarhead_22 When TexRdnec is the voice of moderation, you know you have swerved over the double yellow line and are headed into oncoming traffic

birdbarian Member Joined Oct 2004 Posts 11694 EE 100% (4) GA, USA	Posted: 11/24/2019 3:12:56 PM EDT [#45] Quote History Originally Posted By saigamanTX: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-b6dNembpOrM/U0NUkwaGjVI/AAAAAAAAO3k/XEbBx5SDCwk/s1600/83988184.jpg View Quote Are those shell casings at the top of the pic? Rear gunner adding to the mayhem? Pics of the unsinkable USS Laffey at Patriot's Point Attached File Attached File Attached File

Dog1 U.S. Rifle, Caliber .30, M1 Joined May 2001 Posts 55484 EE 100% (488) IN, USA	Posted: 11/24/2019 3:19:28 PM EDT [#46] When I looked up that photo on Google it says it was a Douglas A-20.... so maybe he's strafing as he goes before he drops his payload.
	Hansan: "This is a .30 caliber, gas operated, clip fed, semi-automatic rifle....." Soldier: "Look, you ain't sellin it to me, you're only showing me how it works."

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Posted: 11/24/2019 3:47:53 PM EDT

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Originally Posted By birdbarian:

Are those shell casings at the top of the pic? Rear gunner adding to the mayhem?

Pics of the unsinkable USS Laffey at Patriot's Point

https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/60078/IMG_0835_JPG-1172238.JPG

https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/60078/IMG_0907_JPG-1172241.JPG

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Casings from the Havocs nose gun. The camera is mounted under the plane facing rearward.

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Posted: 11/24/2019 6:02:17 PM EDT

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Here's a photo of the "Connolly Column" (Irish Volunteers in the International Brigade) during the Spanish Civil War. The photo was taken in the town of Poso Blanco during the summer of 1937.
The dark haired guy on the right, carrying the Mosin-Nagant, is Lou Gordon, my late brother-in-law. He was an American truck driver in the International Brigade, and drove the Irish guys down to Poso Blanco for the parade. He went to Spain in 1936, and was there until the armistice in 1939. In 1941 he was drafted into the US Army, and served in Europe in the 1269th Combat Engineers. His company was the 1st American unit into Dachau in 1945.
He died in 2006 at age 91.

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Tickets, Please!

13starsinax Cracker Joined May 2012 Posts 14503 EE 100% (114) FL, USA	Posted: 11/24/2019 6:35:58 PM EDT [#49] Quote History Originally Posted By saigamanTX: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-b6dNembpOrM/U0NUkwaGjVI/AAAAAAAAO3k/XEbBx5SDCwk/s1600/83988184.jpg View Quote Sweet, perspective.
	Originally Posted By mizzarley Can we all agree now that the D's and R's are the same fucks who are just pimping for control and tax dollars?

13starsinax Cracker Joined May 2012 Posts 14504 EE 100% (114) FL, USA	Posted: 11/24/2019 6:41:36 PM EDT [#50] http://ww2today.com/13-february-1945-operation-thunderclap-raf-start-firestorm-in-dresden Attached File Attached File https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/history/17551322.when-a-4000lb-blockbuster-bomb-exploded-at-croft-airfield/ Attached File Interesting read https://airminded.org/2012/11/14/the-first-blockbuster/
	Originally Posted By mizzarley Can we all agree now that the D's and R's are the same fucks who are just pimping for control and tax dollars?

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