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2 posted on
07/04/2010 4:45:18 PM PDT by
magslinger
(If recycling makes cents as well as sense, I am all for it.)
To: SWAMPSNIPER
Thanks, I have seen all of this footage before, but still. Brave soldiers of LIBERTY!
Words fail me about today.
3 posted on
07/04/2010 4:53:29 PM PDT by
Shady
(No more LAWS based on LIES!!!!)
To: SWAMPSNIPER
Thank You!
Former US Navy SWO
6 posted on
07/04/2010 5:20:07 PM PDT by
PatriotCJC
(Keep your powder dry!)
To: SWAMPSNIPER
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.
7 posted on
07/04/2010 5:24:12 PM PDT by
FlyVet
To: SWAMPSNIPER
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.
8 posted on
07/04/2010 5:34:42 PM PDT by
Gay State Conservative
(''I don't regret setting bombs,I feel we didn't do enough.'' ->Bill Ayers,Hussein's mentor,9/11/01)
To: sonofstrangelove; 1COUNTER-MORTER-68
To: SWAMPSNIPER
A few Whistling Death pics for you
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
13 posted on
07/04/2010 6:26:06 PM PDT by
alfa6
To: SWAMPSNIPER
That is great footage.
I watched the first two episodes of THE PACIFIC HBO series this evening. It is very good
14 posted on
07/04/2010 6:39:14 PM PDT by
bert
(K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... The winds of war are freshening)
To: SWAMPSNIPER
The modern liberal history revisionist and the Holocaust deniers want us to believe that this never really happen...
18 posted on
07/04/2010 9:13:54 PM PDT by
American Constitutionalist
(There is no civility in the way the Communist/Marxist want to destroy the USA)
To: SWAMPSNIPER
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.
22 posted on
07/05/2010 6:18:28 AM PDT by
jetson
To: SWAMPSNIPER
23 posted on
07/05/2010 6:32:14 AM PDT by
kanawa
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