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Memphis Belle Crewman dies:Robert Hanson
UK Telegraph
Posted on 10/20/2005 11:45:44 AM PDT by Grendel9
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A tru American hero.
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posted on
10/20/2005 11:45:45 AM PDT
by
Grendel9
To: Grendel9; SkyPilot; Army Air Corps; Aeronaut
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posted on
10/20/2005 11:47:45 AM PDT
by
Constitution Day
(Hypocrite opportunist. Don't infect me with your poison.)
To: Grendel9
Also here...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1496296/posts
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posted on
10/20/2005 11:47:52 AM PDT
by
Borges
To: Grendel9
Rest in peace American hero. Thank you!
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posted on
10/20/2005 11:48:47 AM PDT
by
armydawg1
(" Amierca must win this war..." PVT Martin Treptow, KIA, WW1)
To: Grendel9
My best salute to you Sir! Blue skies and God's Light.
AR
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posted on
10/20/2005 11:50:02 AM PDT
by
alarm rider
(Irritating leftists as often as is humanly possible....)
To: Grendel9
RIP.
But I cannot resist:
"perhaps the most celebrated aircraft of the Second World War"
Enola Gay, anyone?
Come on!
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posted on
10/20/2005 11:51:26 AM PDT
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
To: Constitution Day; Tijeras_Slim; FireTrack; Pukin Dog; citabria; B Knotts; kilowhskey; cyphergirl; ..
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posted on
10/20/2005 11:54:00 AM PDT
by
Aeronaut
(2 Chronicles 7:14.)
To: Grendel9
Another member of The Greatest Generation leaves us.
Rest in the presence of God,Sir!
To: Grendel9
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posted on
10/20/2005 11:59:46 AM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
To: Grendel9
May this hero rest in peace.
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posted on
10/20/2005 11:59:48 AM PDT
by
BykrBayb
(Impeach Judge Greer - In memory of Terri <strike>Schiavo</strike> Schindler - www.terrisfight.org)
To: Grendel9
Another American hero gone. May he rest in peace.
I saw a story the other day that the Memphis Belle has been moved to the Air Force Museum at Wright Patterson Air Force base for a complete restoration and will go on display in 2008. ( I think the date is accurate)
As an aside, My step father was in the eighth Air Force during WW2. He did three or four missions as a gunner. I remember back in 1994 during the D-Day 50th anniversary celebrations asking him what he was doing on D-Day. I was expecting this heroic tale of flying a mission over occupied France or over Germany, fighting off German fighters and tales of planes shot down. But Dad answered, "I was in England, painting a fence". Real heroes do not need to embellish.
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posted on
10/20/2005 12:02:42 PM PDT
by
Bar-Face
(The Embassy helicopter is warming up.)
To: Grendel9
What a crappy movie. I don't beleive for a second that they were worried about bombing a school, and turned around to do a second run.
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posted on
10/20/2005 12:06:55 PM PDT
by
Rodney King
(No, we can't all just get along.)
To: the OlLine Rebel
Not to detract in any way from Memphis Belle's crew and their accomplishments, but although they were credited as being the first crew to complete 25 combat missions, the first B-17 aircraft to complete 25 was "Hell's Angels" of the 303rd Bomb Group on 14 May 1943. The 303rd also had the first B-17 to complete 50 missions (Knockout Dropper, of the 359th Bomb Squadron) and this same ship was first to complete 75 missions on 27 March 1944. My source for these dates is the 303rd BG website.
To: Constitution Day
He is not dead, he is on eternal patrol.
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posted on
10/20/2005 12:12:08 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: the OlLine Rebel
The Memphis Belle completed her task in 1943 and her crew toured for two years selling bonds. Everyone knew of the plane. The Enola Gay ended the war but sure wasn't as "celebrated" as the Belle.
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posted on
10/20/2005 12:16:59 PM PDT
by
HoustonCurmudgeon
(A right wing Christian, not part of the Christian Right)
To: Grendel9
Actually, the raid on Schwienfurt claimed SIXTY (60) B-17's destroyed........not 6, as the article states
600 Americans lost, either dead, missing or captured, in a single raid.....staggering, in terms of today
To: the OlLine Rebel
Rest in peace, Robert.
Also, I'd say most "celebrated" is the correct word for Memphis Belle, in the context of its service in the war and its mystique among the populace. As for Enola Gay...yes, it decisively struck a death blow to Japan which, despite lots of revisionism, was not yet nearly ready to surrender, having still had 1.5 million soldiers, equipped and intact, in Japan with which the hardline generals were determined to use in one, mass "honorable exit," national hara kiri. However, though it helped save perhaps hundreds of thousands of American lives (among them my own father, a WWII marine), because it dropped a nuclear device, it has long since become "politically incorrect." Therefore, unfortunately, it is more "infamous" than either "famous" or "celebrated."
To: Aeronaut
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posted on
10/20/2005 12:30:01 PM PDT
by
F14 Pilot
(Democracy is a process not a product)
To: Grendel9
The other day, I donated couple of bucks to the Memphis Belle Museum! It is not just about WW II!
It is about how man can be devoted to freedom of others and sacrifice his life to see others free and happy
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posted on
10/20/2005 12:32:16 PM PDT
by
F14 Pilot
(Democracy is a process not a product)
To: F14 Pilot
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