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.
Douglas Dauntless SBD - My Father was a crew chief for a Marine dive bomber squadron that flew these during the entire Solomon Islands campaign, starting at Guadalcanal.
Douglas Dauntless SBD - My Father was a crew chief for a Marine dive bomber squadron that flew these during the entire Solomon Islands campaign, starting at Guadalcanal.
ReplyDeleteIt was said of the Dauntless, "It isn't Fast, but It sure is Slow"
ReplyDeleteS.B.D. = Slow But Deadly......
My hats of to you and your father Anon 11:19 lest we forget what many of our mothers and fathers did and went through during WW2.
ReplyDeleteI've wondered why this plane was equipped with 30 caliber machine guns instead of 50 caliber machine guns. Weight perhaps?
ReplyDeleteDive brakes.
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