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To: OneWingedShark
NYC had AA emplacements during WWII.

/johnny

31 posted on 01/02/2011 8:02:13 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper
On a official tour of DC a few yrs back I learned an interesting story...

Seems during WW2 one of our guys was manning a rooftop AA gun near the Lincoln Memorial...In an effort to impress his girlfriend by letting her sit in his lap while manning the gun ...She mistakenly launched a blast that took out “Massachusetts” on the Lincoln Memorial facade..

It was immediately hushed up and classified as Top Secret and not declassified in till years later!..I think in the 70’s

(the final plight of the poor solider was unknown!

35 posted on 01/02/2011 8:33:36 PM PST by M-cubed
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