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To: dirtbiker

My father worked on a AA gun crew. Their chief duties was to shoot down Buzz Bombs hitting London. They shot down something like 8 out of 10. The Brits were very pleased.
Dad passed away when I was 3 years old, but he kept all his Company newletters and paperwork. It was very interesting reading.


29 posted on 09/23/2007 10:15:24 AM PDT by Yorlik803 ( When are we going to draw a line a say"this far and no farther")
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My mom has a photo album of the pictures dad sent back from Korea. He had little notes and commentary on each one. I last looked at it about 8 years ago.

He was section chief for a battery of 105's that fired regularly at a mountain called "Ol' Papasan". This mountain was honeycombed with tunnels that the N.Koreans dug to get past our lines. Sometimes, they would fire for 48 hours straight; at night, the gun barrels would glow red.

Dad said that mountain was about 40 feet shorter when he left, and a lot of N.Koreans were killed there when the tunnels caved in on them....

39 posted on 09/23/2007 10:39:53 AM PDT by dirtbiker (I'm a liberal's worst nightmare: a redneck with a pickup, a library card, and a conceal carry permit)
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