Posted on 07/19/2018 5:48:09 PM PDT by eastforker
In October 1951 while Clint was on leave, he was a passenger on a Douglas Torpedo Bomber heading back to his base. The bomber experienced some major problems and had to ditch at sea just north of San Francisco about a mile or so off Point Reyes. Clint survived the crash and had to swim about three miles to safety! A map in included among the pictures we have posted here on his profile page.
(Excerpt) Read more at army.togetherweserved.com ...
There was “Revenge of the Creature” and The Creature Walks Among Us.”
What if they had named you Barack?
I had a couple of school teachers... brothers. Both joined up in WW2. The Marines misspelled the last name of the elder brother. For the rest of their lives they had similar-but-different names.
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