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1 posted on
05/16/2008 8:06:25 PM PDT by
Flavius
To: Flavius
One of the greatest stories of the war, and the movie, while a little embellished, is one of the best war movies ever. I still remember the theme.....
2 posted on
05/16/2008 8:16:08 PM PDT by
Shady
(The Fairness Doctrine is ANYTHING but fair!!!!)
To: Flavius
617 Squadron.
A truly remarkable unit.
3 posted on
05/16/2008 8:20:24 PM PDT by
okie01
(THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
To: Flavius
Are these the guys that skipped the bombs across the water?
To: Flavius
Engineers and mechanics outlasted most of the pilots.
There's a life lesson there.
God bless the men that fly and fight.
/johnny
5 posted on
05/16/2008 8:25:49 PM PDT by
JRandomFreeper
(Bless us all, each, and every one.)
To: Flavius; indcons; archy
7 posted on
05/16/2008 8:29:18 PM PDT by
The Spirit Of Allegiance
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To: namsman
8 posted on
05/16/2008 8:34:02 PM PDT by
SW6906
(6 things you can't have too much of: sex, money, firewood, horsepower, guns and ammunition.)
To: Flavius
Wow...
The last surviving Dam Buster pilot is a Kiwi, and I don’t think that has made the news DownUnder yet (I will need to check).
The Lancaster Bomber is an amazing contraption: there’s one in Auckland’s Museum of Transportation and Technology, and it is MASSIVE.
You can actually get right up close to it and have a look and, like me, you will probably be amazed how low-tech and primitive it is: almost like a prehistoric flying reptile. Held together by rivets. How it got off the ground in the first place would seem a mystery. And how you could persuade seven brave men to climb in, load the plane with hi-explosives and fly 60 feet over a Dam under heavy gunfire???
Mind-boggling. It is not for nothing that they are called The Greatest Generation. I am really going to miss these Lads when the last one is finally gone.
9 posted on
05/16/2008 8:34:21 PM PDT by
DieHard the Hunter
(Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fà g am bealach.)
To: Flavius
10 posted on
05/16/2008 8:34:42 PM PDT by
NormsRevenge
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To: Flavius
16 posted on
05/16/2008 8:47:00 PM PDT by
Bobalu
(What do I know, I'm a Typical White Guy)
To: Flavius
To: Flavius
20 posted on
05/16/2008 8:58:16 PM PDT by
Bobalu
(What do I know, I'm a Typical White Guy)
To: Flavius
I need to go to an air show. Bad
21 posted on
05/16/2008 9:00:07 PM PDT by
wastedyears
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To: Flavius
28 posted on
05/16/2008 9:14:51 PM PDT by
SuziQ
To: Flavius
A sweet aside for you all.......if you are ever in Britain at Christmastime, be sure to go to one of the many pantomimes offered (play of a nursery rhyme that is always fun). At the end of the show they always have a sing-along for the kids. One thing that is always done is a ‘dance’ to the Dambusters theme. All the kids are invited into the aisles and they raise their arms as if to fly and dance around to the theme. It is goosebump raising.
To: Flavius
36 posted on
05/16/2008 11:21:02 PM PDT by
TYVets
41 posted on
05/18/2008 5:13:18 AM PDT by
Titan Magroyne
("Shorn, dumb and bleating is no way to go through life, son." Yeah, close enough.)
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