The FReeper Foxhole Remembers the Air Campaign Against Rabaul (11/1943) - July 28th, 2005

World War II Magazine | November 1999 | Jon Guttman

[Professional Engineer]

USMCBOMBGUY on the move in Iraq

Quick somebody call PETA to report donkey abuse!

Great pictures.

[Professional Engineer]

1750 Johann Sebastian Bach German composer (Art of the Fugue), dies at 65

Ah, Burghoff

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1945 US Army bomber crashes into 79th floor of Empire State Bldg, 14 die

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I read a review of the show in the WSJ. Sounded like they are reinforcing all the stereotypes the MSM are fostering about Iraq to add more "Hollywood" and drum up ratings.

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Great picture!! Looks just like the one on post #34. ;^)

[Professional Engineer]

Proudly posting before reading the thread since...

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Proudly posting before reading the thread since...

Darn! I was hoping you'd say something like, "great minds . . ." Oh well, maybe another day . . .

[Professional Engineer]

LOL

I was trying to be vaguely original.

[Iris7]

The fellow in the first segment keeps talking about "Cape Tokorina" related to Empress Augusta Bay on Bougainville Island. I suspect he means Cape Torokina, on Empress Augusta Bay. Important Naval night battle there about February '43.

Rabaul is about 245 statute miles west by north west from Torokina Point, according to my maps. Can't find a protractor.

Some sources say that the Helldiver was inferior to the earlier SBD, mostly because the fuselage was too short to give the tail section any leverage, it sounds like. Bad design, but not the manufacturer's fault. The machine replaced the SBD even though the users complained that it was inferior.

[Professional Engineer]

SpankenTruppen for ya Snippy

[Iris7]

I stopped watching TV as much as possible decades ago. One's basic grip on reality is destroyed by watching TV in excess. Excess is a small number of minutes per week.

Don't know how to fix this. I suggested shutting down the TV system to a friend, who replied that this would cause a revolution. One could make the TV folks personally liable for lies, distortions and anyone's hurt feelings, corruption of the young, middle aged, and old, etc., and let the lawyers loose on them. Be fun to watch. Ten thousand law suits filed per second.

Do not expect anything but propaganda and lies from those people. Moronic propaganda and lies, made by morons for morons. Bocho is one of the worst.

Thanks for your the description of the story line, because your description (containing no surprises) is as close as I intend to get to that stuff.

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Thanks for the pictures. They bring home the very personal way war has affected our families and us.

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Thanks for an interesting post. It's interesting to see how flyboys on both sides exaggerated the number of kills. That's been a constant problem since the invention of military aviation, hasn't it? Not that anybody thinks they're not telling the truth, it's just so hard to tell how effective bombing has been in real time.

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and partying with Sam

A couple of real party animals.

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LOL. Love the Nova. You cut quite a handsome pose young man.

That's some well, wow. It's a shame all that biblical history was in the hands of the devil.

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Hey Sweets . . . how'd ya sleep last night?

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Now don't get me wrong, I love USN air, check my name, but the early zero was a beauty.

We appreciate beauty here at the Foxhole. A couple of my favorites are the ME-109 and the Mosquito, one German, one British and of course I love the Corsair, the P-38, the B-17, LOL. So many of those WWII Warbirds were beauties.

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forgot the e--scrifice,,,duh

It's not you, it's a Foxhole anomoly, we all do it and were dang proud of the fact that Foxhole folks can still understand what we mean!

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Wow, great pictures of your grandad, you know we are thankful for his service and so happy when you share pics with us. :-)

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((Hugs))