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"Thunderin' Loretta"of the 1st B.S. The two men pictured are Charles Siddens (left) and his brother, Wendy. Wendy Siddens was a Navy man who managed to visit Tinian and see his brother. Charles and his entire crew were lost on a mine laying mission in May of '45

2 posted on 07/09/2004 12:00:24 AM PDT by snippy_about_it (Fall in --> The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul.)

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3 posted on 07/09/2004 12:01:15 AM PDT by snippy_about_it (Fall in --> The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul.)

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From the mighty, mighty Foxhole archives, SAMWolf, Curator:

Refurbishing a MK 36 Hunting Mine

It was given a pair of Martin Sheen's old sneakers to sniff and released.

Have you misplaced your mine (Alzminers')? This site may help you:

Applications of Multibeam Echosounders in Mine Warfare & Route Survey

The K.D. Smith Collection

K.D. Smith was working on the development of RADAR at Bell Laboratories during these years, and in 1945. One of his notes references that he was project engineer on the AN/APQ 13 and the AN/APQ 23.

B-29 Radar

Bombing Radar Fairing Between Bomb Bays

From the Boeing B-29A Superfortress Walkaround

The Shipboard Degaussing System

The Joint Chiefs went to the White House November 1965 to ask LBJ for permission to mine Haiphong and bomb Hanoi.

He threw them out after fifteen minutes of cursing and that was The Day It Became The Longest War.

A mine in LBJ's chest exploded in 1973.

O the humanity.

106 posted on 07/09/2004 8:35:25 PM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)

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