Posted on 08/18/2023 4:51:14 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Leftists have gone on the attack against the U.S. Air Force Academy football team for honoring the WWII Doolittle Raid on Japan that occurred immediately after the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor.
On Tuesday, Air Force Football revealed its new uniforms, which feature a tribute to the Doolittle Raid.
Left-wing trolls blasted the Air Force for celebrating the raid conducted by American heroes who showed Japan that the U.S. was not down for the count after taking such heavy losses at Pearl.
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They were B-25 Mitchell medium bombers. I hope they show tribute to “The Ruptured Duck” which was Doolittle’s plane.
If they hate America, they can gtfo!
As do I.
The B-25 Mitchell medium bomber named the “Ruptured Duck” was the mount of 1st LT Ted W Lawson, who authored the book and was the subject of the movie, “Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo,” one of the greatest WW II films of all time, starring Van Johnson and Spencer Tracy.
I don’t think that Doolittle’s bird had any designation other then Plane #1.
Yeah, 1942 the service was the Army Air Corps so the lefties can STFU! 🖕
Embrace the power of “And”. You must be using some obsolete 18th century definition for leftists. In any case it is moot now, practically their entire party platform today is treasonous, technically speaking.
Don’t kid yourself. These people are leftists, dyed in the wool left wing nutbars through and through.
The aircraft carrier Dolittle flew from was the Hornet.
The Hornet was one of three carriers that made up the Yorktown class.
I hope we have some SOBs left when the time comes.
“The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
FTA: “...the WWII Doolittle Raid on Japan that occurred immediately after the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor.”
Well, it was more than four months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, which is not “immediately.”
“God, take me now.”
That is exactly the reaction the left hopes for. So, don’t quit, don’t surrender.
“Leftists have already decided they can’t coexist with us. Our options are few.”
So are theirs.
“They were B-25 Mitchell medium bombers. I hope they show tribute to ‘The Ruptured Duck’ which was Doolittle’s plane.”
No, it was Ted Lawson’s plane.
I am growing weary of my very misinformed and ignorant fellow Americans. It seems few of them are acquainted with history.
I don’t care what leftists think about anything. They hate this country, they hate its people, and they really ought to be living somewhere else.
Did any one of the quoted posts provide a specific reason for their opposition? One I read seemed to e angry at linking football to war. That person has a reasonable take but doesn’t quite get the idea of a service school honoring its forebearers. Army does it at Army Navy Game every year when they wear a Division or special unit patch. But I stiil don’t know what the other posters are objecting to.
Reading through their comments, my guess is they already think that’s what this uniform is commemorating. The vast majority know nothing about history.
War crimes are when prisoners are forced on a death march and when they are exausted get decapitated on the side of the road,,
that’s what a war crime is.
B-25 Mitchell
Who listens to these people or cares what their opinions are?
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