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.
Thursday, August 10, 2017
Fortresses of the 447th Bomb Group on their way to targets in Europe
Sadly, these brave men and thousands of others like them fought, bled, and died to free Europe from the tyranny of nazism only to have the liberated fools hand the continent over to Islam just a few short decades later.
greatest generation
ReplyDeleteMy dad could be in there somewhere, depending on the date the photo was taken.
ReplyDeleteLots more 447th photos here--
http://www.americanairmuseum.com/unit/406
447th has the square (3rd Division) K on the tail.
447th home page--
http://www.447bg.com/
Yeah, guess where I get my screen name.
Thanks to your dad for his service. It took real men to fly those missions.
DeleteSadly, these brave men and thousands of others like them fought, bled, and died to free Europe from the tyranny of nazism only to have the liberated fools hand the continent over to Islam just a few short decades later.
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