To: simpson96
A side note about the crack from the junkman about “you guys up there in the air, while I was stuck down in the muck in a tank” ... it was safer to be a marine on Iwo Jima than it was to be a B-17 crewman.
9 posted on
03/16/2024 6:38:28 PM PDT by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: DuncanWaring
yeah, but safer, and miserable, are two different things...
15 posted on
03/16/2024 7:19:27 PM PDT by
Chode
(there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
To: DuncanWaring
... it was safer to be a marine on Iwo Jima than it was to be a B-17 crewman.The Eighth Air Force took terrible losses. The first raid on Schweinfurt it lost over one half of its aircraft and crews.
17 posted on
03/16/2024 7:25:53 PM PDT by
Rummyfan
(In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.c)
To: DuncanWaring
Now that is so true. The 8th suffered more casualties than the Marines did in WW II. Of course, a lot bailed out and became POWs.
24 posted on
03/16/2024 7:41:18 PM PDT by
Retain Mike
( Sat Cong)
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