Posted on 01/19/2009 5:40:35 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
The total of this appropriation is $552,000,000. We only need $80,000 to keep Free Republic up and running for the next quarter. If you get value from FR please do the right thing and contribute a few bucks. If enough people sign up for a small monthly amount these freepathons would be quite short.
"General Arnold said that the useful life of a training plane was almost unlimited, as was that of observation planes.
"Bombing planes were good for from six to eight years.
"Pursuit planes, which had to be better than anything brought against them, became obsolete in two to four years.
I suspect the good general may be just bit too optimistic, don't you think? ;-)
Done...I’m not a moocher! LOL!
10 tropical ports? I only count 7
I think those sneaky Italians are trying to pull one over on us.
That’s alright. Looks like we used her as a hospital ship during World War II - the Frances Y. Slanger (named for the first US nurse killed in action in WWII. Killed in 1944 - I would have thought some would have been killed prior to that)
Likewise. Like in the Philippines in 1942.
It’s good to see us take steps in the right direction as far as arming up but the one concern I would have at this point in time is the quality of the aircraft we would be producing. At this point our front line fighter would be the recently first flown P-40 which is already obsolete when compared to the Bf-109 which first flew in 1935.
Apparently no nurses were killed during the loss of the Philippines (that would have been my guess as well.) There were however nurses killed during the Anzio campaign in 1944 - so the sources listing the nurse killed in Belgium was obviously not correct.
Feb 7, 1944 - 3 nurses killed by German bombs which hit the surgical section of 95th Evac hospital.
Feb 10, 1944 - 2 off duty nurses killed by artillery fire at the 33rd Field Hospital.
http://history.amedd.army.mil/ANCWebsite/ANCWWIIbook/Introduction.htm
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