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.
Sunday, October 8, 2017
Ground crew reload a 78th Fighter Squadron P-51 on Iwo Jima
If I'd been young during that war, I would have volunteered to fly a P-51.
ReplyDeleteThose ammo belts are 27 feet long. Thus the saying "Gave 'em the whole nine yards".
ReplyDeleteThat is a lot of weight there. I have 6 feet of inert .50 cal. and it weighs a lot. Imagine what the load for 6 or 8 Brownings weighs!
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