And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
P-38 Lightning. My Dad flew those in the Pacific. He said the counter-rotating props made a stable gun platform but the cockpit heat was lousy because you wren't sitting right behind an engine.
Weapon of choice for assassinating Admiral Yamamoto, if you haven't heard that story you should look it up.
P-38 Lightning. My Dad flew those in the Pacific. He said the counter-rotating props made a stable gun platform but the cockpit heat was lousy because you wren't sitting right behind an engine.
ReplyDeleteWeapon of choice for assassinating Admiral Yamamoto, if you haven't heard that story you should look it up.
Don in Oregon
You had to be a shorter guy to fly the P-38. (putting on my social justice warrior hat) Which today would be an act of vertical discrimination.
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