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Happy D-Day.

DeezerShoove » 05 Jun 2024, 11:01 pm » wrote: ↑

05 Jun 2024, 11:01 pm

Happy D-Day.

My Dad would be 100 this year. 
On the morning of Pearl Harbor he wiped off his face after shaving and ran down to the Alameda AFEES Station to enlist in the Army.
Since he was a College Boy they put him in the Army Air Force.
He ended up flying 84 combat missions in a P- 47 Thunderbolt while stationed in the woods of  St Lo Belgium, earning 11 air medals and 2 Bronze Stars.
To this day the people of Belgium know more about what his unit did to save them than what any brainwashed SJW, or *** or libtard wigger, or free speech hating Jew  in the USA will ever know.
His worst memories were having to shoot up horse drawn ammo and food carts being pulled by horses while returning to base. At the belly scraping  height they operated at on strafing runs, those guys  made eye contact with those poor horses.
Four 50 cal MGs in each wing panel.....each MG  fed with a nine yard long ammo belt. So this works out to 3400 rounds for each mission plus 3000 pounds worth of rockets and bombs.
Fighter Pilots  were under general orders [encouraged]  to "give  the  whole nine yards" every mission. 
The worst part of many missions was just getting airborne cleanly without crashing and exploding a fully gassed up and bombed up plane on takeoff.  .

 
 

GHETTOBLASTER » 06 Jun 2024, 1:23 am » wrote: ↑

06 Jun 2024, 1:23 am

My Dad would be 100 this year. 
On the morning of Pearl Harbor he wiped off his face after shaving and ran down to the Alameda AFEES Station to enlist in the Army.
Since he was a College Boy they put him in the Army Air Force.
He ended up flying 84 combat missions in a P- 47 Thunderbolt while stationed in the woods of  St Lo Belgium, earning 11 air medals and 2 Bronze Stars.
To this day the people of Belgium know more about what his unit did to save them than what any brainwashed SJW, or *** or libtard wigger, or free speech hating Jew  in the USA will ever know.
His worst memories were having to shoot up horse drawn ammo and food carts being pulled by horses while returning to base. At the belly scraping  height they operated at on strafing runs, those guys  made eye contact with those poor horses.
Four 50 cal MGs in each wing panel.....each MG  fed with a nine yard long ammo belt. So this works out to 3400 rounds for each mission plus 3000 pounds worth of rockets and bombs.
Fighter Pilots  were under general orders [encouraged]  to "give  the  whole nine yards" every mission. 
The worst part of many missions was just getting airborne cleanly without crashing and exploding a fully gassed up and bombed up plane on takeoff.  .

I always wondered where that phrase came from.

I worked with a guy that talked a little bit about that stuff. Sounds like his missions were similar.
He always felt bad about strafing cattle cars and watching the cows almost blowing up.
Had to starve them out though. Supply trains are supply trains. Bullets or beef - they gotta go...
 

GHETTOBLASTER » 06 Jun 2024, 1:23 am » wrote: ↑

06 Jun 2024, 1:23 am

My Dad would be 100 this year. 
On the morning of Pearl Harbor he wiped off his face after shaving and ran down to the Alameda AFEES Station to enlist in the Army.
Since he was a College Boy they put him in the Army Air Force.
He ended up flying 84 combat missions in a P- 47 Thunderbolt while stationed in the woods of  St Lo Belgium, earning 11 air medals and 2 Bronze Stars.
To this day the people of Belgium know more about what his unit did to save them than what any brainwashed SJW, or *** or libtard wigger, or free speech hating Jew  in the USA will ever know.
His worst memories were having to shoot up horse drawn ammo and food carts being pulled by horses while returning to base. At the belly scraping  height they operated at on strafing runs, those guys  made eye contact with those poor horses.
Four 50 cal MGs in each wing panel.....each MG  fed with a nine yard long ammo belt. So this works out to 3400 rounds for each mission plus 3000 pounds worth of rockets and bombs.
Fighter Pilots  were under general orders [encouraged]  to "give  the  whole nine yards" every mission. 
The worst part of many missions was just getting airborne cleanly without crashing and exploding a fully gassed up and bombed up plane on takeoff.  .

Mine passes at 92 and it looks like he had a lot in common with your dad.  Mine also joined the Army Air Corp. after Pearl Harbor and worked as a mechanic on those planes your dad flew.

Theirs was an incredible generation, the kind likely to never to be seen again.
 

DeezerShoove » 05 Jun 2024, 11:01 pm » wrote: ↑

05 Jun 2024, 11:01 pm

Happy D-Day.

My uncle, who has since passed, was in the 2nd wave on Omaha. He never talked about his time in Europe.  When Saving Private Ryan came out, his eldest made him watch the landing scene and asked if it was even relatively accurate.  His only comment was "They didn't make it as bad as it really was."   

DeezerShoove » 05 Jun 2024, 11:01 pm » wrote: ↑

05 Jun 2024, 11:01 pm

Happy D-Day.

Google forgot to notice, apparently this is remember some dead dike day for them.

Zeets2 » 06 Jun 2024, 9:15 am » wrote: ↑

06 Jun 2024, 9:15 am

Mine passes at 92 and it looks like he had a lot in common with your dad.  Mine also joined the Army Air Corp. after Pearl Harbor and worked as a mechanic on those planes your dad flew.

Theirs was an incredible generation, the kind likely to never to be seen again.

Those mechanics were in big demand after the war...!!
The WWII Gen had a great sense of comradery that came from the hard times that so many of them had to not only endure but also conquer.
 

ConsRule » 06 Jun 2024, 9:31 am » wrote: ↑

06 Jun 2024, 9:31 am

My uncle, who has since passed, was in the 2nd wave on Omaha. He never talked about his time in Europe.  When Saving Private Ryan came out, his eldest made him watch the landing scene and asked if it was even relatively accurate.  His only comment was "They didn't make it as bad as it really was." 

I'm sure watching a reenactment pales in comparison vs living the real horror. My HS was next to the VA filled with WWII vets where we had some interaction...it's amazing some of them did as good as they did...there were some **** up soldiers in there....