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.
Read about the Air Apaches: The True Story of the 345th Bomb Group and Its Low, Fast, and Deadly Missions in World War II . So many crews were lost. Lose an engine and the crew was almost always doomed to a violent crash, or rarely a lingering one, and occasionally a Japanese beheading if captured. Great read. Dan Kurt
January 31, 1956 – a B-25 bomber ditched into the icy Monongahela River near Pittsburgh. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb9tGSMJvmg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmRSB7jzm-M
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ReplyDeleteBuzzing the San Francisco docks. War bond tour? Happy to be home joyride?
ReplyDeleteGod bless those men.
No. Movies simulating coming in hot over Tokyo Bay.
DeleteOr maybe that's one of the Doolittle raiders before leaving on their mission.
ReplyDeleteThe ‘Ruptured Duck’ from the movie ‘Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo’.
ReplyDeleteVan Johnson I think
DeleteAnd Spencer Tracy.
DeleteThat movie is the first place I heard cigarettes called "coffin nails".
DeleteRead about the Air Apaches: The True Story of the 345th Bomb Group and Its Low, Fast, and Deadly Missions in World War II . So many crews were lost. Lose an engine and the crew was almost always doomed to a violent crash, or rarely a lingering one, and occasionally a Japanese beheading if captured. Great read.
ReplyDeleteDan Kurt
January 31, 1956 – a B-25 bomber ditched into the icy Monongahela River near Pittsburgh.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb9tGSMJvmg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmRSB7jzm-M
Some people say it had a secret cargo, or even an Atomic Bomb!!!!!!
DeleteFootage from "30 Seconds Over Toyko"? Nose art indicates the Ruptured Duck.
ReplyDeleteThe Hornet takeoff & Tokyo bombing: most exciting 20 mins in cinema!
ReplyDeleteThirty Seconds Over Tokyo.
ReplyDeleteThat attack on the Japanese capital happened 4 months after Pearl Harbor, that HAD to have worried the people in Japan who were running things.
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