The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Hubert "Hub" Zemke and "Zemke's WolfPack" (1943-45) - July 9th, 2003

http://www.afa.org/magazine/valor/0495valor.html ^ | April 1995 | John L. Frisbee

[SAMWolf]

Thanks Darksheare. I didn't realize Clive Cussler was so involved in these projects.

[Darksheare]

Hey, we needed it, keep sending it.

[SAMWolf]

We could use some if it. Getting tired of moving sprinklers around.

[Darksheare]

You should see him in his pic on his website.
He looks like one of those guys who'd be dreaming up dredging for the predecessors to the Hunley. (Pioneer and one other.)

And yes.. he did dream up of ways of trying to find those subs.
So far, no luck yet.
This is their history at the moment.
http://www.numa.net/history/numa_history.htm

[snippy_about_it]

Break Time!

[SAMWolf]

Thanks for the link Darksheare. Rela interesting stuff. I've heard of some of the ships.

The Cyclops was one of those "Strange" disappearances.

[SAMWolf]

The Sloop John "B". Good Beach Boys

[Darksheare]

Yeah.
Clive has an odd 'interest' in searching out sunken and missing vessels and such.
I'm still chuckling about the 'bog train' turning out to be an insurance scam.

[SAMWolf]

Yeah I saw that about the "bog train". Wonder what the "statute of limitations" is on that?

[PhilDragoo]

Bill Haley and the Comets
Rock Around the Clock (1955)

Rock and Roll was born in 1955--just look--

Air Combat Command's B-52 is a long-range, heavy bomber that can perform a variety of missions. The bomber is capable of flying at high subsonic speeds at altitudes up to 50,000 feet (15,166.6 meters). It can carry nuclear or conventional ordnance with worldwide precision navigation capability.

Date deployed: February 1955

This Zemke Fan signals large files to follow.

[PhilDragoo]

Production P-47B, -C, early -D and -G series aircraft were built with metal-framed "greenhouse" type cockpit canopies. Late -D series (dash 25 and later) aircraft and all -M and -N series production aircraft were given clear "bubble" canopies, which gave the pilot improved rearward vision.

P-47C-2-RE Side view - S/N 41-6182

P-47M-1 3/4 front view - S/N 42-21159

Fw-190D (long nose)

Me-110

Me-262

P-51D

F-86 Sabres Korea

They were outnumbered and underrated. They were fresh from the training fields in American and ordered to fight an enemy that had rewritten the book of war and brutally controlled a continent and the air above it. But the men of the 56th fighter group had courage and, more importantly, they had the P-47 Thunderbolt. This is the incredible story of the U.S. 56th Fighter Group as told by one of its best pilots, Robert S. Johnson, who would rack up a score of twenty-eight kills against the Luftwaffe and become one of America's top aces - one of a special breed of men who changed the course of history.

A B-17 niche book is Pride of Seattle: The Story of the First 300 B-17Fs by Steve Birdsall. A production of Squadron Signal, the book is in the Squadron format with numerous large and detailed black and white photos, accompanied by eight pages of full-color artwork profiles of aircraft. The meat of the book are the brief histories of each of the first 300 B-17Fs that rolled from the Boeing production line. Included in this number are some better known B-17s such as "Memphis Belle" and "Hell's Angels." No doubt this group of B-17Fs bore the brunt of the early European air war and it is interesting to read about these aircraft and their ultimate fates.

Australian Steve Birdsall is well known in B-17 book circles, having written a number of histories about the early combat airplanes in service. The first book I saw by Steve was back in the mid-1960s entitled "B-17 Flying Fortress" and was part of the series put together by Len Morgan. A 1968 title was "Hell's Angels" put out by Grenadier, probably the first 'nose art' book and actually better than most of the succeeding attempts. He's written a number of other books about various other aircraft but he seems to have specialized in the B-17. In any event, "Pride of Seattle" is up to the standard and provides that extra bit of detail on particular B-17Fs that comes in handy when looking at a photograph or pondering the fate of a particular airplane.

[snippy_about_it]

Thank you Phil for the great pictures and information.

[snippy_about_it]

LOL.

[SAMWolf]

Afternoon PhilDragoo.

"Castles in the Air" by Martin Bowman and "Flying Forts" by Martin Caiden are excellent books on the B-17.

"The First and the Last" by Adolf Galland is a good concise history of the Luftwaffe.

[snippy_about_it]

Oh, my gosh .. I am positively salivating. Thank you for the link!

You're welcome. I'm doing well as I hope you are!

[Victoria Delsoul]

Hiya friends. Good to see ya all.

click on the graphic. I like this song... Oldie, but good, hehe.

[snippy_about_it]

Good evening Victoria, there's that big graphic again. lol.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Did I post it before? LOL!!!

[snippy_about_it]

That's allright, I'm on the second go with my music. lol.

[Victoria Delsoul]

I should remember next time, LOL.