Posted on 02/10/2015 4:26:13 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
FDR looks very ill in the pictures. I wonder how much he is actually thinking through versus how much he is under Hiss’ influence?
But then, no one was the military genius Hitler was, eh?
I once worked for a boss to whom loyalty was far more important than competency. Needless to say, I wound up getting asked to leave, as eventually happened to all of the other competent people in the office. The bootlickers were left and the office went to hell.
COMMONWEALTH OF THE PHILIPPINES: 2nd Lt. Louis Curdes, USAAF, 4th FS (Commando), 3rd FG (Commando), shoots down an American C-47 which is attempting to land on a Japanese-held airstrip in the Batan Islands, a chain of small islands north of Luzon. The aircraft force landed and thirteen crew and passengers are rescued. One of the passengers was a nurse that he later married. An American flag was added to the German, Italian and Japanese flags painted on his P-51D. (Stuart Kohn)
A better explantion of what he did.
“There is one example of a USAAF pilot displaying an American flag on his kill markings - and not only diplaying it proudly, but receiving a DFC for his action! Lt. Louis Curdes of the 4th Fighter Squadron, 3rd Air Commando Group was flying a P-51D on February 10, 1945, during a sweep to Batan Island. He saw a P-51 pilot parachute into the sea, and Curdes circled around him to pinpoint his position to rescuers. While circling, he saw a USAAF C-47 that was preparing to land on the Japanese-held strip on Batan. Unable to veer the C-47 away, Curdes saw only two possibilities - first that it was a Japanese plane using US markings (the DC-3 was made under licence in Japan,) or it was a US plane truly lost. He therefore carefully shot out both engines, causing the plane to land in the sea. All 13 people on board the C-47 were rescued - and they were indeed Americans, including several nurses, one of whom was a girlfriend of Curdes!
The plane had lost its way, and had tried to land in error on the Japanese-held island. Curdes’ quick thinking averted the Americans’ capture. He later adorned the victory scoreboard on his P-51 with seven German swastikas, one Italian fasces, one Japanese rising sun, and one American flag!”
I forgot to cite my source
http://www.ww2f.com/topic/12989-friendly-air-to-air-kills-blue-on-blue-incidents/
Thanks for the post. I couldn’t make heads or tails out of the original description.
I don’t recall with whom I had the discussion, but around the time of Stalingrad someone corrected me that the name was Paulus, not Von Paulus. Turned out they were correct. Like the Times, I had always thought he was a Von. His bio says his father was a commoner and worked at a school.
Paulus married into Romanian royalty, but that didn’t confer a “von.”
It sure as hell wasn’t “von Hitler.” At least the Times got that right.
See #11
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LOL.
Thank you so much, dearest ET!
God bless.
LOL.
Nope, no German ancestary.
Swedish and Irish.
Thanks so much again!
Thank you, too!
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