To: bk1000
“The Goony Bird!”
There it is... I was reading through to see if anyone remembered the real nickname. :)
58 posted on
10/25/2023 3:02:16 PM PDT by
Openurmind
(The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
To: Openurmind
I think it was the Navy that called them the Gooney Bird,
after the Albatrosses of Midway Island.
62 posted on
10/25/2023 3:21:27 PM PDT by
TTFlyer
(Lenin: that by the infliction of terror, a well-organized minority can conquer a nation.)
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