Interesting picture in the article.
To: PotatoHeadMick
2 posted on
11/14/2007 6:08:28 PM PST by
Virginia Ridgerunner
(“We must not forget that there is a war on and our troops are in the thick of it!” --Duncan Hunter)
To: PotatoHeadMick
The P-38 was one of the most romantic, sleek-looking aircraft of WWII.
Here, allow me........:
3 posted on
11/14/2007 6:09:56 PM PST by
Viking2002
(Waterboarding the Left every chance I get.)
To: PotatoHeadMick
To: indcons
To: PotatoHeadMick
A great article, thanks for posting!
And for the less informed who might stumble across this thread, Kelly Johnson went on to design the famous U-2 reconnisance plane, which provided the U.S. with the capability to overfly the Soviet Union in the late 1950’s with near impunity (although the late Francis Gary Powers might take issue with that claim), and I believe it was a U-2 that provided the U.S. with proof of Soviet missiles in Cuba in ‘62.
And of course it was a team of P-38 fighters that took out Japanese Admiral Yamamoto, just our way of saying “sayonara Isoroku, and thanks.”
I hope this P-38 makes it back to the U.S. and to a full restoration.
13 posted on
11/14/2007 6:56:28 PM PST by
mkjessup
To: PotatoHeadMick
AWESOME!!!!
Hope they can salvage it and preserve it.
I don’t think there are too many of those great old warbirds left.
14 posted on
11/14/2007 7:01:32 PM PST by
ZULU
(Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
To: PotatoHeadMick
Reminds me of one of my favorite Twilight Zones.
23 posted on
11/14/2007 7:27:59 PM PST by
P.O.E.
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28 posted on
11/14/2007 8:04:06 PM PST by
SW6906
(6 things you can't have too much of: sex, money, firewood, horsepower, guns and ammunition.)
To: PotatoHeadMick
31 posted on
11/14/2007 8:40:43 PM PST by
bajabaja
To: PotatoHeadMick
Was this not the plane depicted in the movie and book “The Flight of the Phoenix?” In this movie, travelers crashed their P-38 in the desert and finally made it out by building a new plane out of one of the “booms”.
37 posted on
11/15/2007 5:26:23 AM PST by
Drawsing
(The fool shows his annoyance at once. The prudent man overlooks an insult. (Proverbs 12:16))
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