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.
My father was a combat glider pilot..First in on D-Day, participated in three other drops. They were not volunteers, but assigned after flight school by random count.
So that would be two years of training, one night of sheer terror, followed by three months of waiting, another night of sheer terror, more waiting...... Here's the WWII mission that was probably the most boring and the most dangerous. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud4cqSGsQTc&t=482s Al_in_Ottawa
My father, a 30-year Air Force career colonel, best friend (also a 30-year AF colonel) was a glider pilot in WW-2 ... and right after D-Day, his glider "crash landed" and he was captured by the Krauts and held as a POW for two years.
My flight instructor for my PPL was a glider pilot, name of Joe Stahl (grin). Joe never flew a combat mission, he was in line for one in the invasion of Japan. He died in a late night car crash on the way home from an EAA meeting at age 85. RIP Joe.
Not a SOY-BOY among them!
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My father was a combat glider pilot..First in on D-Day, participated in three other drops. They were not volunteers, but assigned after flight school by random count.
ReplyDeleteSo that would be two years of training, one night of sheer terror, followed by three months of waiting, another night of sheer terror, more waiting......
ReplyDeleteHere's the WWII mission that was probably the most boring and the most dangerous.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud4cqSGsQTc&t=482s
Al_in_Ottawa
My father, a 30-year Air Force career colonel, best friend (also a 30-year AF colonel) was a glider pilot in WW-2 ... and right after D-Day, his glider "crash landed" and he was captured by the Krauts and held as a POW for two years.
ReplyDeleteMy flight instructor for my PPL was a glider pilot, name of Joe Stahl (grin). Joe never flew a combat mission, he was in line for one in the invasion of Japan. He died in a late night car crash on the way home from an EAA meeting at age 85. RIP Joe.
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