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Posted on 10/11/2014 4:09:05 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
The plexiglas “dome” behind the top turret, became a punchbowl for certain parties.
Did we then take Bonn and Colougne?
“During the night of 11/12 October, the USAAF Eighth Air Force flies Mission 673: nine aircraft drop leaflets in France without loss.”
Why and where were we dropping leaflets in France? Didn’t we control 99% of it?
“Why and where were we dropping leaflets in France? Didn’t we control 99% of it?”
Good question. Maybe there were besieged holdouts that were urged to give up. The 8th Air Force diary where this entry originated doesn’t say.
http://www.8thafhs.org/combat1944b.htm
We have few WW-II vets still living. One in my old church is passing as I write. Was on the USS Bismark that was sunk out side Iwo Jima by Kamikazees. He was fished out,"with all my fingers and toes attached, others were not so fortunate and that's why I have had a smile on my face the last 70 years, my wife too!" A year later in the war:
USS Bismark sinks, cheers to Herb
Oh that we had some semblance of fighters in that age. We do but the politics has become enmeshed in glad-handing and total ignorance. God bless you and those great vets in their latter days!
Once in a while, I come across a youngster who has the right stuff and would fit right in with a platoon, a crew, some shipmates.
I do meet young people - on occasion - who, despite the deplorable “public education” conceived by progressives (whatever are the ostensible gang colors of the progressives) ... are possessed of a mind that seeks to learn, and lights up upon getting information censored by the progressives.
A young lady who fancies herself a liberal, cannot get out of her mind the strong sense that she is missing out on something, when she considers how strong of heart and mind, some of my generation but especially my father’s and mother’s friends have been.
So, my young liberal friend finds herself crossing swords with her erstwhile political colleagues.
Thanks for the link to the USS Bismarck Sea.
I had a college professor who survived the sinking of the USS Lexington at the Battle of the Coral Sea. He lost a leg to a shark. He was a really great guy.
Another associate of his and professor of mine, had escaped “duty” to the NAZI’s before World War II. Quite by accident, I came across this professor’s daughter, and it was wonderful to learn more of his past.
It’s tempting to lay out a long list of friends, here, to get across a point to some other members of this forum, which would thoroughly shake its rafters. Yet, I can only say, that with only one or two exceptions, all the men and women I knew of my family’s older friends, would not permit the continuance of the fraud, greed, and piracy of so many rajahs-in-suits making up the executive offices in business, government, and law, extant in our country.
One of my old friends, was a former USN captain during WW-II. He became a captain of industry in the true sense of that expression. Forty years after the war, I came across him outside a university in the midwest. He pretty much said what I wrote in the preceding paragraph. The crude self-interest all dolled up in fancy “executive” clothing, did not impress him. My friend was a decisive fellow; but today’s generation of “leaders” from business to government (includes in the legal trades) are thoughtless in the face of danger to our nation and our people.
So, we have to keep our wits about us despite the apparent odds.
Thanks for your reply; I did watch the video (tx again).
The ladies fashions are so elegant...the men’s, too.
People took pride in themselves and dressed accordingly.
The ladies fashions are so elegant...the men’s, too.
People took pride in themselves and dressed accordingly.
To all- please ping me to Canadian topics.
Canada Ping!
At this point, there were still fairly large chunks of French territory behind the German lines.
Gorgeous Gene Tierney? I was not familiar with this actress seeming to have a man’s name(named after a man, it appears)
She had an interesting and somewhat tragic life intersecting Howard Hughes and JFK (as did most of the top stars?:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Tierney
She met Howard Hughes, who tried unsuccessfully to seduce her. From a well-to-do family, she was not impressed by his wealth.[4][page needed] Hughes eventually became a lifelong friend.
Tierney married twice, first to Oleg Cassini, a costume and fashion designer, on June 1, 1941, with whom she eloped. Her parents opposed the marriage, as he was from a Russian-Italian family and born in Europe.[10] She and Cassini had two daughters, Antoinette Daria Cassini (October 15, 1943 – September 11, 2010)[11] and Christina “Tina” Cassini (born November 19, 1948), born after their first divorce.
In June 1943, while pregnant with Daria, Tierney contracted rubella (German measles), likely from a fan ill with the disease.[10] Daria was born prematurely in Washington, D.C., weighing three pounds, two ounces (1.42 kg) and requiring a total blood transfusion. The rubella had caused genetic damage: Daria was found to be deaf, partially blind with cataracts, and had severe mental retardation. She later was institutionalized for much of her life.[10]
Tierney’s friend Howard Hughes paid for the medical expenses of Daria, ensuring the girl received the best care. Tierney never forgot his acts of kindness.[4]
Tierney and Cassini separated October 20, 1946 and entered into a property settlement agreement November 10, 1946.[12] An uncontested divorce followed in California; their final divorce decree was dated March 13, 1948. The couple reconciled on August 19, 1948, but did not remarry.[12]
During their separation, Tierney met John F. Kennedy, a young veteran from WWII, who was visiting the set of Dragonwyck in 1946. They began a romance that she ended the following year after Kennedy told her he could never marry her because of his political ambitions.[9] In 1960, Tierney sent Kennedy a note of congratulations on his victory in the presidential election.
Your source says “Mission 673: 9 aircraft drop leaflets in France, the Netherlands and Germany during the night.” which makes more sense. In that context it was probably more of a generalization of the area between the french/german border.
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