Posted on 06/06/2019 12:05:21 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
LBJ was one of the biggest crooks ever to occupy the White House, and not worth a cup of warm spit...IMHO
Both he has in common with FUBO...
Hawker Aviation received no funding for early development of the Harrier from the Royal Treasury, getting some funding from NATO.
In the late 50’s Hawker merged with Siddeley and the combined company self funded the production of two prototypes named Kestrel.
Then the brains at the Ministry of Defence wanted to combine the RAF desire for a V/STOL strike aircraft and the RN’s desire for a VTOL fighter.
The Ministry of Aviation decided the project was too expensive and unsound and scrapped the whole thing.
Hawker Siddeley persisted on it’s own dime and eventually the Harrier was born.
A case of too many cooks in the kitchen was the biggest problem.
“Apparently they made both PT and LC.”
That’s true, but the name “Higgins Boat” applies to the landing craft, which Higgins essentially invented. The landing craft was based upon his Eureka swamp boat. Higgins was a builder of PT boats but that’s not something that he invented.
My parents live in the Texas Hill Country. A lot of tales about LBJ. How Lady Bird put up with it I don’t know.
The Higgins LC reminds me of a “brown water” boat from VN, while the PT Boat reminds me of both a blue and brown water boat.
That’s probably a fair comparison. Some of the VN brown water navy were LC craft. And a WWII PT Boat was definitely designed to go out on the blue water.
My dad was in the Army Air Corps during WWII. He was in the pacific in New Guinea and then the invasion of Luzon. He was there when General MacArthur came ashore and said “I have returned”.
What they didn’t show was that they had spent the morning bulldozing pits to push the bodies into. It was day three of the invasion of Luzon. The first day the Australian marines went in. The second day the US marines. He and the rest of the US army/Army Air Corp went in on the morning of the third day. He said he had to walk on the bodies of the Australians and US Marines covering the sand because there was no where else to step.
My dad came home from Luzon on a hospital ship. He had been shot in his head through his helmet. It did not penetrate his skull. He had all his upper teeth knocked out buy a Japanese rifle butt. Lastly, he was shot in the lower abdomen and the wound became septic. This was very common in the jungle. He spent six weeks in the hospital. He came home, eventually married and had four children.
PFL
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