.....Posted on 01/26/2015 2:49:21 PM PST by virgil283
today 26 Jan 1944-"Lieutenant Murphy ordered his men to withdraw to a prepared position in a woods while he remained forward at his command post and continued to give fire directions to the artillery by telephone. Behind him to his right one of our tank destroyers received a direct hit and began to burn. Its crew withdrew to the woods. Lieutenant Murphy continued to direct artillery fire which killed large numbers of the advancing enemy infantry. With the enemy tanks abreast of his position, Lieutenant Murphy climbed on the burning tank destroyer which was in danger of blowing up any instant and employed its .50 caliber machine gun against the enemy. He was alone and exposed to the German fire from three sides, but his deadly fire killed dozens of Germans and caused their infantry attack to waver. The enemy tanks, losing infantry support, began to fall back. ..."
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Died in a helicopter crash while on a business trip.
He is of the same generation as Jimi Hendrix, Jane Fonda, John McCain, The Beatles, Elvis, The Chicago Seven, Janis Joplin, Bob Seeger, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Van Morrison, Jim Morrison and most all of the youth leaders of the 1960s that you can name.
And let's not forget Texan Chris Kyle. See American Sniper
So they were hiding safely behind trees, just as I thought.
NOT. most were born 45 or later.Hendrix born in 45.
Actually, those folks you named would’ve been in the (ludicrously named) “Silent Generation”, wedged in between the Greatest Generation (who fought in WW2) and the Baby Boomers.
YES.
His generation is the pre-boomer generation, born 1925 through 1945. “The Silent Generation refers to people who were born between 1925 and 1945.”
Audie Murphy was born in 1925, part of the silent generation.
Audie Murphy was born in 1925. Janis Joplin was born in 1943. Audie Murphy was old enough to have been the father of any of the rock stars you mention. But, the musicians all missed the classification of baby boomer by about 3 years.
No, he died in an Aero Commander, at the time considered a very nice light twin nd certainly one more than capable for the weather that day.
I flew over the exact same area at almost the same time he crashed and it was a really nice day for an instrument pilot.
Light rain, mostly between layers. No thunderstorms, no rough weather at all.
I flew the route fron Greensboro, NC on the way to Wilkes Barre, Pa.
The problem was the jerk who owned the fixed base operation at which the Aero Commander was based, sent the plane out on a trip half way across the US piloted by a non instrument pilot.
You very very rarely can fly that far and not encounter weather.
I just looked it up to refresh my memory, as it has been a long long time, and note that he asked for weather information from ROA flight service and they told him that it was 1,000 and 3, VFR minimums.
Well the guy that gave him that info should be hanged. The area north of the Roanoke airport is a rugged as anything east of the Rockies. There is no way in the world you can traverse that route with only a 1,000 fit ceiling and 3 miles visability.
I flew the trip both ways that day and enjoyed every minute of it. I always liked to fly instruments and that was the perfect day for it.
So he was killed by a fool.
Really sad.
There is no actual “greatest generation”, that was created by the lefty Tom Brokaw, to sell his book, and for whatever other reasons that it serves the left.
WWII was not fought by a “generation”.
See post 27.
He’s no John fn kerry, he needed a bandaid for his battle wound.
By the way, boomer Oliver Stone was born in the first year of boomers (1946), and was old enough to be boomer Sarah Palin’s father(1964).
Uh no, he is not of the generation of moonbats and degenerates you mention.
The WWII generation was born around 1905 through 1927. That is not the same as the group you listed. I have no idea what you are trying to prove.
That was a great generation, I think mainly because of their “can do” attitude.
There were other “great” generations too. Probably the ones who fought the Revolution and War Between the States were as great as any.
I still think the WWII generation was a special one. Reading the history of my Father’s outfit, I was simply awed by their ability to do things fast and well. Many times I found it hard to believe what they accomplished.
There isn’t a WWII generation as defined by the generations that we commonly use.
There was not a single generation that fought WWII, some of those men were old, and some of those men were still fighting in Vietnam years later.
I think you’re correct....it was Yeager. For some reason, I had Blese in mind, but I believe he grew up a service brat and didn’t spend much time in the country.
Actually he was, Audie Murphy was a member of the “Silent Generation” as William Ayers and Bernadette Dorhn.
Do you seriously believe that people sharing a generation with 10s of millions of other people, are not individuals?
No, Yeager grew up in rural West Virginia. He entered the military first during WWII.
I got to meet Gen. Robert Lee Scott, author of “God Is My C0-Pilot”. He also wrote a bunch of other books which were not as well known.
I do remember his mentioning that the Japanese ground troops tended to not lead their target enough. He wondered if it was because they had never duck hunted.
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