MVP
Posted 16 September 2015 - 04:07 PM
Who should be primarily credited for winning the war against Japan with the Allies in the China-Burma-India Theater: the Communists or Nationalists? Why did China become a “Forgotten Ally”? How does WWII influence the current China-US relationship? Can we avoid future wars in East Asia?
To commemorate the 70th Anniversary of the end of WWII, VOA proudly presents a 60-minute documentary to salute WWII veterans as well as to discover the truth of CBI along a journey of the Flying Tigers!
John Keegan, a renowned British military historian, has called World War II the greatest single event in the history of mankind. - Tom Brokaw, NBC special correspondent and author of "The Greatest Generation"
MVP
Posted 17 September 2015 - 04:06 PM
On this date, September 17, 1944. Operation Market-Garden began in the ETO. Field Marshall Montgomery's great plan to get across the Lower Rhine which turned into a big fat dud,
https://en.wikipedia...n_Market_Garden
John Keegan, a renowned British military historian, has called World War II the greatest single event in the history of mankind. - Tom Brokaw, NBC special correspondent and author of "The Greatest Generation"
Fair-weather ex-diehard
Posted 17 September 2015 - 06:36 PM
On this date, September 17, 1944. Operation Market-Garden began in the ETO. Field Marshall Montgomery's great plan to get across the Lower Rhine which turned into a big DEADLY dud,
A major snafu due to various iffy decisions and a few screw-ups... the epitome of a clusterfuck... so, lots of truly heroic deeds were wasted for nothing...
During it, Dutch civilians came out in the open to help American paratroopers fight Germans... which pissed off the Nazi's... so the Nazi's cut off food supplies that winter, and God-only-knows how many thousand Dutch civilians died of starvation...
"The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second-class citizen to a second-class immortal." - Satchel Paige
HOF
HOF
Posted 07 November 2015 - 01:48 PM
Do some of the things in here sound like something you've encountered before?
http://www.wearethem...y-the-e-4-mafia
https://www.cia.gov/...Sabotage_sm.pdf
MVP
Posted 20 November 2015 - 06:04 PM
70 years ago today, the Nuremberg Trials started.... an excellent read.
Much of what we now understand as the Holocaust—the persecution of the German Jews in the 1930s, the evolution of systematic, European-wide mass murder during the Second World War, the number 6 million, ghettoization, the rampages of theEinsatzgruppen, the death camps in Eastern Europe, the uprising of the Warsaw Ghetto—became part of the proceedings of the Nuremberg Trial of 1945-46 thanks in good measure to three Jewish advocates, none of whom was formally part of the prosecution. Each of them was a lawyer; each was an émigré from an Eastern Europe ravaged by the slaughter of Jewish people during the war, and each, in his own way, drew an important conclusion drawn from the catastrophe that his community of origin had undergone.
http://www.tabletmag...-from-nuremberg
John Keegan, a renowned British military historian, has called World War II the greatest single event in the history of mankind. - Tom Brokaw, NBC special correspondent and author of "The Greatest Generation"
Fair-weather ex-diehard
Posted 20 November 2015 - 06:15 PM
70 years ago today, the Nuremberg Trials started.... an excellent read.
Thanks for that...
Fascinating to see how those 3 guys who accomplished so much wound up feeling disappointed in the result... each in their own way...
ps: There should be something like Nuremburg after every war... and not just aimed at the losers... just to keep everybody somewhat honest...
"The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second-class citizen to a second-class immortal." - Satchel Paige
MVP
Posted 25 November 2015 - 11:01 AM
On this day in 1940, saw the first flight of the British De Havilland Mosquito multi role combat airplane, piloted by Geoffrey de Havilland. The nickname of the plane was the 'Wooden Wonder', because it was constructed almost entirely out of wood.
John Keegan, a renowned British military historian, has called World War II the greatest single event in the history of mankind. - Tom Brokaw, NBC special correspondent and author of "The Greatest Generation"
Fair-weather ex-diehard
Posted 25 November 2015 - 04:55 PM
On this day in 1940, saw the first flight of the British De Havilland Mosquito multi role combat airplane, piloted by Geoffrey de Havilland. The nickname of the plane was the 'Wooden Wonder', because it was constructed almost entirely out of wood.
WWII... when plywood went to war... UKian Mosquitoes and USian PT boats...
One thing that amazed me was how little payload WWII bombers could carry compared to jets...
Mosquito: 2,000 lbs
B-25 Mitchell: 3,000 lbs
B-26 Marauder (aka "Baltimore Whore"): 5,800 lbs
B-17 Flying Fortress: 8,000 lbs
B-24 Liberator: 8,000 lbs
F4 Phantom (an amaziing all-purpose warplane that held records for decades): 16,000 lbs
F-15 (the current all-purpose warplane): 23,000 lbs
B-52: 70,000 lbs.
B-1A: 79,000 lbs internal, 59,000 lbs external
B-1B: 45,000 lbs
B-2A: 60,000 lbs
F-117: 8,000 lbs
F-35: 18,000 lbs.
"The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second-class citizen to a second-class immortal." - Satchel Paige
Banned
Posted 26 November 2015 - 05:56 PM
Fair-weather ex-diehard
Posted 07 December 2015 - 06:47 AM
A lost PBY of December 7, 1941.
Considering how many they made, not a lot of survivors.... most of them were casualties... mostly boating accidents, not aircraft accidents.... they flew OK but made lousy boats...
"The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second-class citizen to a second-class immortal." - Satchel Paige
MVP
Posted 07 December 2015 - 04:00 PM
PEARL HARBOR (HawaiiNewsNow) -
The Pearl Harbor survivor who witnessed the attack while an ensign assigned to the USS Arizona will be reunited with his shipmates during an interment ceremony Monday on the 74th anniversary of the event.
Navy Lt. Commander Joseph Langdell, who died February at 100 years old in Northern California, was the last surviving officer from the naval battleship that lost 1,177 men when it was bombed on Dec. 7, 1941. He was on Ford Island the morning Pearl Harbor was attacked.
“When I die, I'm going to be buried on the Arizona where the great big hull is," Langdell told Hawaii News Now in 2011, when he was in Honolulu for a Pearl Harbor commemoration ceremony. "That was where turret two was, and turret two was my station."
http://www.hawaiinew...l-harbor-attack
John Keegan, a renowned British military historian, has called World War II the greatest single event in the history of mankind. - Tom Brokaw, NBC special correspondent and author of "The Greatest Generation"
MVP
Posted 16 December 2015 - 05:17 PM
Love these reclamation jobs...
Note: in part 2, he said he doesn't have a transmission for it. He can't afford an original as they go for $150k!
John Keegan, a renowned British military historian, has called World War II the greatest single event in the history of mankind. - Tom Brokaw, NBC special correspondent and author of "The Greatest Generation"
Fair-weather ex-diehard
Posted 16 December 2015 - 06:45 PM
I'm guessing blueprints for it aren't around...
If he's got a broken one, or of somebody will let him borrow a good one, then all he needs is a fellow maniac who's a good machinist.... there's gotta be somebody somewhere who both has a serious machine shop and loves stuff like this...
That's what they do with super rare old cars: they start with a large hunk of the right kind of metal, and just make what they need from scratch... the problem isn't the material, because old stuff isn't made from unobtanium... the problem is knowing exactly what it is you're trying to make......
"The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second-class citizen to a second-class immortal." - Satchel Paige
MVP
Posted 24 December 2015 - 10:05 AM
In World War II He Flew His Plane from a Navy Cruiser
Hank Wolfe says he’s a Pennsylvania Dutchman, since he grew up in Nazareth, Pa. He would have been more than surprised at that time to know that later he was to be fighting in some of the major battles in the Pacific during World War II.
He had completed a year at Rutgers University before deciding that the Navy’s V-5 program sounded good to him. If he had the ability to complete it, it offered him a chance to learn to fly and earn a commission.
So he signed up, and the Navy sent him first to Colgate University for a few weeks, where he flew a bit in Piper Cubs, and then to the University of North Carolina, where the main goal seemed to be to get him in better physical shape than he had ever dreamed of being. There were some classes in basics of celestial navigation, etc., but half the day went to toughening him up.
http://50plusseniorn...his-plane-navy/
John Keegan, a renowned British military historian, has called World War II the greatest single event in the history of mankind. - Tom Brokaw, NBC special correspondent and author of "The Greatest Generation"
MVP
Posted 06 January 2016 - 04:54 PM
The ashes of World War II veteran Elaine Harmon are sitting in a closet in her daughter’s home, where they will remain until they can go to what her family says is her rightful resting place: Arlington National Cemetery.
Harmon piloted aircraft in World War II under a special program, Women Airforce Service Pilots, that flew noncombat missions to free up male pilots for combat. Granted veteran status in 1977, the WASPs have been eligible to have their ashes placed at Arlington with military honors since 2002.
But early last year, then-Army Secretary John McHugh reversed course and ruled WASPs ineligible.
http://www.washingto...ton-n/?page=all
John Keegan, a renowned British military historian, has called World War II the greatest single event in the history of mankind. - Tom Brokaw, NBC special correspondent and author of "The Greatest Generation"
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Posted 11 January 2016 - 06:04 PM
http://www.baltimore...0111-story.html
Almost 75 years after they were killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor, the remains of five U.S. sailors who perished when their battleship was sunk, have been identified, the Pentagon said Monday.
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The men identified were Chief Petty Officer Albert E. Hayden, 44, of Mechanicsville, Md., in St. Mary's County; Ensign Lewis. S Stockdale, 27, of Anaconda, Mont.; Seaman 2nd Class Dale F. Pearce, 21, of Labette County, Kan.; Petty Officer 1st Class Vernon T. Luke, 43, of Green Bay, Wisc.; and Chief Petty Officer Duff Gordon, 52, of Hudson, Wisc.
They were aboard the USS Oklahoma, and had been buried as unknowns.
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