Posted on 08/05/2016 11:46:13 PM PDT by mkjessup
THAT is a fabulous story FRiend, and I’m not trying to play “can you top this”, but my Uncle Tommy was also a welder in the Kaiser shipyards out in California during the war, and as the story goes (handed down of course), one day they put out a call for welders to work on a classified project, paid triple wages in cash, had to pass an FBI background investigation.
My Uncle Tommy passed the background check, said they put him and a bunch of welders on a bus with blacked out windows, drove what seemed like forever, and dumped them all in the middle of an arid prairie like area, with tents to live in, steel girders, and blueprints to build a radio tower in the middle of nowhere.
They built the tower, got paid, sworn to secrecy and shipped back to California.
It was sometime in 1946 (?) that my Uncle was looking at a Life Magazine and yelled to my Aunt “they blew up my damn tower, the sons o’ bitches!” and that was when he learned that he had helped assist in the construction of the tower used for the Trinity test in July 1945.
His was only a peripheral role, but YOUR Grandfather?
Holy smokes, he helped build history, and I tip my hat to him, and to you.
Another snippet from the same documentary:
US troops preparing to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima - BBC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0eHCytkcHg
He who drops first drops last.
I would not be here today were it not for Little Boy and Fat Man. My father was on the Philippine island of Mindanao, helping to keep the Nips bottled up in the interior and preparing for the invasion of Japan, when the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The quick end to WWII allowed him to return home in December 1945, marry my mother in January 1946, and father four children, all raised to honorable adulthood. Never any question Truman made the right call for America, our Allies, and our enemies. It saved millions of lives on all sides that otherwise would have been lost having to take the Land of the Rising Sun by force from fanatical Japs.
Yes, I used Nips and Japs...deal with it. Read “The Rape of Nanking” and “Prisoners of the Japanese.”
Then, Vietnam happened and self-doubt and self-hatred grew and mushroomed. Then the revisionists stepped in and now there is no longer good or evil, right or wrong or justice or crime. It's all blurred now and millions cannot differentiate between these opposites.
America SHOULD have woken up on 9/11 and she did for a few months. Then, after the Bush years, she went to sleep again.
It doesn't matter now because events will push America to the brim once again and she will have to choose sides, be united or sink with Europe...
It saved Japan from being divided, like Korea.
Russkies were real anxious to get even for 1912.
'I told my boys I don't want to hear any of that anti American crap. Without the Americans, we'd all be eating rice with sticks. If we had any rice to eat, that is.'
I forgot the ending. spooky.
lol. Who is that guy!!!??
I wish some entity would reverse engineer my body :)
Enola Gay was compley restored and is on display at the Smithsonian. She looks ready to go.
My dad had just finished up in Germany in 1945. He was a
combat veteran, Army Infantry. IF Truman hadn’t had the
guts to use what we had, my dad would have, as a hardened
combat veteran, had to go to Japan where the odds of
survival were horrible. - President Truman made the decision
to drop the bomb, went to bed and slept well that night.
Obama’s basking in the thought and knowledge that he and the Democratic Party of America have facilitated the two most evil nations in the world obtaining nuclear weapons.
Yes, I was lucky enough to go see here. She is shiny and beautiful. Hanging in the air like a plane was meant to be.
The one thing that surprises me is that the LGBTQ Nazis haven’t demanded that the word “Gay” be stricken from the nose of that aircraft, and from the historical record of the event.
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They’d have a helluva explanation to make since ENOLA GAY was Paul Tibbets’ mother’s name.
We need to return to America first and take back our educational institutions from the left wing America haters and kick some butt to straighten this country out.
It was clearly the right thing to do, but our xxxxxx President has apologized for it.
And Germany tried to ship a submarine load of uranium or yellowcake to Japan at one point of ok. Japan and Germany were both actively working on The Bomb.
http://www.legacy.com/ns/paul-tibbets-obituary/97120088
Buried in the expanded obit you find the below comment. Kind of the measure of Paul Tibbets.
Tibbets had requested no funeral and no headstone, fearing it would provide his detractors with a place to protest, Newhouse said.
He wasn’t a General at the time of the mission, was he? What WAS his rank? Captain, maybe?
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