[magslinger]

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[Shady]

Thanks, I have seen all of this footage before, but still. Brave soldiers of LIBERTY!
Words fail me about today.

[PatriotCJC]

Thank You!

Former US Navy SWO

[FlyVet]

One of my Uncles, now gone, spent the war on USS Enterprise CV6, most decorated ship of WWII. Grandma had to sign a waiver for him, he was only 17. Survived it. Gawd, imagine the adrenaline rush as the Nipponese bored in on them. Imagine knowing, as a wet-eared teenager, an entire superpower is chasing after you, because you're the only seaworthy US carrier on the water, at times?

A most famous pic, The Kamikaze hit they took 14 May 1945.

That "thing" hundreds of feet in the air, with a smoke plume behind it, is the rear aircraft elevator that brought the planes up from below deck. It weighed tens of tons. Damn. Damn. Damn. How did they stay upright?

Uncle wrote that "we survived because our Skipper was "Trigger Happy", in reference to the USS Vincennes Incident.

[Gay State Conservative]

About the only words Brokaw ever uttered that were worthy of my respect and support were the phrase he coined...”The Greatest Generation”.And WWII wasn’t the *only* thing that they did that earned them that title.

[hennie pennie]

*ping*

[alfa6]

A few Whistling Death pics for you

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[bert]

That is great footage.

I watched the first two episodes of THE PACIFIC HBO series this evening. It is very good

[American Constitutionalist]

The modern liberal history revisionist and the Holocaust deniers want us to believe that this never really happen...

[jetson]

Great Vid! My dad was the damage control officer for the front third of the USS Hornet. The vid matches his stories. On top of kamikazes armor piercing bombs were another fear. He lost a couple of room mates from these bombs. Would you know how one would get the crew manifest for a WWII carrier.

[kanawa]

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