[KeyLargo]

Short video on the webpage where Lt. Jaffe says that Hollywood got it wrong with the actor Henry Fonda depicted portraying Lt. Jaffe.

[KeyLargo]

AVIATION PING

[GreyFriar]

K-L, thank you for the post. The cloudy weather caused nearly all of the USAAF recon missions over the Ardennes/Schnee Eifel area to either be aborted or return with no results. There were a couple of air recce flights that spotted some signs of a possible build up but the weather kept additional recon from confirming. Jaffee was probably flying the recce version of the early Allison powered P-51As that were referred to as a F-6 for photo recon.

[Rebelbase]

I had to google to make sure this wasn’t the same Al Jaffe of Mad Magazine fame.

[MrEdd]

Rest in Peace.

[Moonman62]

Well worth going to the source and reading the entire article.

[Old Sarge]

And another of the GI’s reports for duty in the Heavenly Host.

FRiends, if you ever meet a GI in passing, shake their hand and tell them how proud you are of them.

You might not get a chance tomorrow...

[wbill]

I watched that movie with my Grandfather. He saw it, “On its first run, in Techicolor”, as he so blithely put it.

Afterwards, I asked what he thought. He said, “It was a fine movie, but no one looked cold enough.”

Grandpa passee away 7 years ago. I still miss him.

[DUMBGRUNT]

photos he shot at the just-liberated Nazi death camp Buchenwald,

My most favored uncle told me that near the end of the war they had heard of the death camps, so they made a side trip. He often said that 'he wished he had never looked'.

On the good nights he would wake up screaming. The bad nights it was John Barleycorn to help him forget.

NEVER FORGET!

[Joe 6-pack]

[jmaroneps37]

Thank you for your service sir and fly home safely.