Posted on 03/04/2007 2:53:43 AM PST by LibWhacker
He supported Hitler. He didn't have to accept that medal.
Boy, are you off base.
In WWII, the Japanese bayoneted Marines and Soldiers they captured.
In the Battle oF guadalcanal, they suckered some Marines into thinking they were going to surrender to them, and killed over 2 dozen Marines.
The Japanese in China threw babies in the air and caught them on their bayonets.
To even try to compare American combat reaction to an enemy who didn't surrender is ignorant of the facts.
Your comments are the equivalent of saying that the Islamikazis are doing what the're doing and Abu Grahib is the reason: i.e.; equating beheadings with panties on the head.
With his anti-military agenda clearly at work, I have my doubts......
German's dont know what their grandparents did??
GERMANS ARE SCREAMING for us to shut up!!!
What Germans did you ever talk to??
Did he, or did he not accept a medal of honor from Goering?
If Lindnurgh was in the Pacific on his own dime, there is NO WAY he would have been allowed to control aircraft or fly combat missions with active duty airmen.
IF he was doing this, he had to have been allowed to do so. There would have HAD to be government sanction.
You really don't get it, do you?
Are you going to respond to the many posts refuting your anti-military agenda?
Yes. They had lots of Nazi sympathizers that were asked to be advisors to the US aviation industry during the 40's. And many of those Nazis were so respected by the members of the military, that commanders offered them fully armed fighter aircraft to fly in battle, risking their career in the process.
Sounds like a teenage slasher flick.
Was that something you read in Lindberghs war diaries, when he was tasked by the military to help find German rocket scientists as the war was ending?
The military hired lots of American Nazis then. Sure.
Still waiting for answers.
He was attempting to negotiate commercial contracts between French companies and German companies, in the idea that perhaps he could prevent a war from breaking out.
Yeah. Dissing the Germans to their faces would have been a good way to prevent war, in the years before the death camps were even built, much less known about.
Does it always take you multiple posts to get your point made?
No matter how much you adore Lindbergh, he is one man (and a questionable one at that).
Where are the others who will verify what the outrageous accusations he has made against our WWII vets?
Is your point that two wrongs make a right?
Al Qaeda today is roughly comparable in barbarism to the Japanese in 1945, yet I'm confident that we no longer tolerate barbarity in the ranks when defeating them. I'm confident of it because if it occured, it would be repeated hourly in the MSM, yet all they can find wrong are troops who put underwear on prisoners heads. If that's all our people do wrong today, then I'm not worried.
Insults won't make your case.
You have the word of one highly questionable source for your horrific accusations, and so far you have not supported your case.
Where is the corroborating evidence?
And what IS your agenda, anyway?
btw, I notice that you have ignored the question about your country of birth. Is it America? It makes a difference.
Plenty. When I was in Germany in the military in the 70's there was a German movie about the *real* history of Germany in WWII, and the younger generation was shocked at what they did not know. There were stories in the newspaper about young people demanding to know why no one told them about the death camps.
Goering was an ex-WWI fighter pilot in the mid 30's, who ran a weakling German Air Force that no one was particularly worried about. The death camps didn't yet exist, and sometime around then Time magazine put Hitler on the cover as it's "Man of the Year".
Lindbergh also visted the USSR in those years, and no doubt accepted a medal from them as well. Will you accuse him of being Communist? Will you associate him with the mass murders of the soviets? You do know that the soviets killed many times more innocent people than Hitler, don't you?
You need to read some history. Lindbergh was a "factory representative", and under those auspices he talked himself into a great many military flights. Military commanders didn't have cell phones to call Washington at every turn, and they made decisions pretty much on their own.
Lindbergh flew combat missions in Air Corps P-38s, unofficially shooting down one japanese aircraft. When he was nearly shot down himself, the army got scared they would take heat if an American hero was killed, so they wouldn't let him fly any more.
So, he went over to the Marines. They were flying bombing missions in Corsars with two or three 500 lb bombs. Lindbergh thought they could carry more, so he started flying test flights with larger and larger bombs. "Test flights" were where he would take off with a bigger bomb load, fly with Marines to a target, and bomb the target while under fire. He eventually bent the bomb pylon with a 2000lb bomb, so they worked out a strenghening kit, repaired the airplane, and he flew with one 2000lb in the center, and two 1000lb bombs on the wing racks (I think).
Yeah. Lindbergh was anti-american, just like John Kerry.
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