Posted on 07/25/2015 10:15:17 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
Really? That was the reason for his volunteering for a highly dangerous, but not suicidal, mission.
Worn-out B-24s had remote controls installed, then packed with explosives. The idea was to fly the planes close to the hardened sub pens, have chase planes remotely take control, and the two-man crews bail out to be picked up at sea. The planes would then be crashed into the targets.
The B-24 wasn't an easy plane to get out of, BTW, not to mention the dangers of parachuting, landing, and being found and recovered at sea.
Kennedy's plane didn't make it far from where it took off, before exploding.
A man like McCain who has no loyalty to anything other than himself at this age reflects on a younger man who had no loyalty to anything but himself. I don’t buy in to “common knowledge” when it comes to McCain or others like him.
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Learns? Just now?
I watched it.
I didn’t know he had 2 sons and a daughter with the wife he dumped.
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