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101-Year-Old WWII Fighter Pilot Flies One Last Mission With His Original Plane
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| NOVEMBER 23, 2016
Posted on 11/23/2016 1:20:35 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
"He's back there with all his old pilot buddies swapping stories and talking about lost times," Randy said. Nice story. Interesting theology though.
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posted on
11/23/2016 1:23:46 PM PST
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Salvavida
(The restoration of the U.S.A. starts with filling the pews at every Bible-believing church.)
To: Salvavida
People living in glass houses... you know.
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posted on
11/23/2016 1:25:24 PM PST
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HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: nickcarraway
Beautiful story. My uncle was a waist gunner in a B-24 in North Africa and Italy during the war. I offered many times to take him up again in a B-24, but he always said he’d pressed his luck enough during the war. He never flew again in any kind of plane—not even a passenger plane.
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posted on
11/23/2016 1:26:01 PM PST
by
thesharkboy
(Charter member of the Basket of Deplorables)
To: HiTech RedNeck
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posted on
11/23/2016 1:26:41 PM PST
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Salvavida
(The restoration of the U.S.A. starts with filling the pews at every Bible-believing church.)
To: nickcarraway
I love to read stories like this! Thank you for posting.
May God’s Holy Angels escort him to Paradise...
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posted on
11/23/2016 1:28:18 PM PST
by
heterosupremacist
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God ~ Thomas Jefferson)
To: nickcarraway
A true hero.
We will not see his like again
To: nickcarraway; SkyDancer
P-38 bump
Rest in peace World War II veteran Francis Robert "Frank" Royal
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posted on
11/23/2016 1:29:57 PM PST
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Liberty Valance
(Keep a Simple Manner for a Happy Life ~ Vote!)
To: nickcarraway
My uncle in law flew p38s over Germany, he was a brit. Great plane. Fast as hell and lotsa guns. Germans did not like these planes.
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posted on
11/23/2016 1:43:01 PM PST
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Secret Agent Man
( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: nickcarraway
Something similar happened to my dad. He flew a KC-97 Stratofreighter in the Texas Air National Guard. When he visited the USAF museum in Dayton, he realized the plane there was one of the ones he flew back then.
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posted on
11/23/2016 1:45:35 PM PST
by
dirtboy
To: Liberty Valance
That’s a beautiful thing.
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posted on
11/23/2016 1:46:21 PM PST
by
dljordan
(WhoVoltaire: "To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.")
To: nickcarraway
P-38s were the #1 killer of Japanese aircraft
To: nickcarraway
God’s speed warrior. You are now home again. Your brethren airman are there with you. I hope they have whiskey in Heaven.
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posted on
11/23/2016 1:51:28 PM PST
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cpdiii
(DECKHAND, ROUGHNECK, GEOLOGIST, PILOT, PHARMACIST, LIBERTARIAN The Constitution is worth dying for.)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
11/23/2016 1:52:57 PM PST
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Charles Martel
(Endeavor to persevere...)
To: Salvavida
Rest in peace Mr. Royal. Thank you for my freedom.
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posted on
11/23/2016 1:54:14 PM PST
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jmacusa
(Election 2016. The Battle of Midway for The Democrat Party.)
To: nickcarraway
Interesting story, thanks for posting. My late Father was a bombardier in a B-24 with the 5th Army Air Corps in Papua New Guinea. He would have been 99 years-old this year. He always wanted to go back and visit New Guinea and was planning a trip there when he passed away in 1988.
To: nickcarraway
The P-38 wss my favorite model to build back in the day. I must have assembled half a dozen of those “Black Widows”.
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posted on
11/23/2016 2:04:16 PM PST
by
weeweed
(Proud Costco University graduate)
To: Liberty Valance
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posted on
11/23/2016 2:04:29 PM PST
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SkyDancer
(Ambtion Without Talent Is Sad - Talent Without Ambition Is Worse)
To: Charles Martel
Awesome video, thank-you!
I have a deep affection for these old ww2 vets since my grand dad was also one. He served in BOTH ww1 and 2.
That’s really neat that the old man was able to take one last ride in ‘his’ plane.
To: nickcarraway
One of the biggest mistakes of World War II, in my opinion, was the decision to transfer the P-38’s to the North African front instead of keeping them for bomber escort duties throughout 1943. Had the P-38 been available for bomber escort duty throughout 1943, we wouldn’t have suffered grievous losses of B-17’s during the Schweinfurt raids.
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posted on
11/23/2016 2:10:45 PM PST
by
RayChuang88
(FairTax: America's economic cure)
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