To: patriot torch
Tailgunner Joe.
A hero of the Second World War. Served as a tail gunner in B-52s fighting Nazis.
Comes home from the war and fights communist in the United States Senate.
He survived the Nazis but the commies got him.
2 posted on
08/02/2023 3:41:46 PM PDT by
Pontiac
(The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
To: Pontiac
6 posted on
08/02/2023 4:00:14 PM PDT by
rktman
(Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉)
To: Pontiac
B52 entered service in 1955. Just sayin’....
9 posted on
08/02/2023 4:05:58 PM PDT by
rktman
(Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉)
To: Pontiac
"... a tail gunner in B-52..." Unless my 89.6 year old memory is even worse than I thought, Joe was a TG in B-17s...
The most dangerous position on the aircraft...
12 posted on
08/02/2023 4:16:14 PM PDT by
SuperLuminal
(Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperately need him)
To: Pontiac
McCarthy served on Bougainville Island fighting the Japanese. He flew at least 12 missions as a photographer and a tailgunner on a dive bomber—probably a Douglas Dauntless, the plane that won the Battle of Midway.
To: Pontiac
31 posted on
08/02/2023 5:33:40 PM PDT by
Hiddigeigei
("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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