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| July 4, 2010
| swampsniper
Posted on 07/04/2010 4:35:11 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER
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SONOBUOY PING!
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posted on
07/04/2010 4:45:18 PM PDT
by
magslinger
(If recycling makes cents as well as sense, I am all for it.)
To: SWAMPSNIPER
Thanks, I have seen all of this footage before, but still. Brave soldiers of LIBERTY!
Words fail me about today.
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posted on
07/04/2010 4:53:29 PM PDT
by
Shady
(No more LAWS based on LIES!!!!)
To: magslinger
Thank You for the posting. Reminds me of my days on the USS Enterprise CVAN65 and VF-96.
To: Parley Baer; SWAMPSNIPER
The thanks belong to SWAMPSNIPER. He actually posted it.
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posted on
07/04/2010 5:01:22 PM PDT
by
magslinger
(If recycling makes cents as well as sense, I am all for it.)
To: SWAMPSNIPER
Thank You!
Former US Navy SWO
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posted on
07/04/2010 5:20:07 PM PDT
by
PatriotCJC
(Keep your powder dry!)
To: SWAMPSNIPER
One of my Uncles, now gone, spent the war on USS Enterprise CV6, most decorated ship of WWII. Grandma had to sign a waiver for him, he was only 17. Survived it. Gawd, imagine the adrenaline rush as the Nipponese bored in on them. Imagine knowing, as a wet-eared teenager, an entire superpower is chasing after you, because you're the only seaworthy US carrier on the water, at times?
A most famous pic, The Kamikaze hit they took 14 May 1945.
That "thing" hundreds of feet in the air, with a smoke plume behind it, is the rear aircraft elevator that brought the planes up from below deck. It weighed tens of tons. Damn. Damn. Damn. How did they stay upright?
Uncle wrote that "we survived because our Skipper was "Trigger Happy", in reference to the USS Vincennes Incident.
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posted on
07/04/2010 5:24:12 PM PDT
by
FlyVet
To: SWAMPSNIPER
About the only words Brokaw ever uttered that were worthy of my respect and support were the phrase he coined...”The Greatest Generation”.And WWII wasn’t the *only* thing that they did that earned them that title.
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posted on
07/04/2010 5:34:42 PM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
(''I don't regret setting bombs,I feel we didn't do enough.'' ->Bill Ayers,Hussein's mentor,9/11/01)
To: sonofstrangelove; 1COUNTER-MORTER-68
To: hennie pennie
if you have more footage send it to me please
To: SWAMPSNIPER; sonofstrangelove
Hello, swampsniper.
Freeper Sonofstrangelove is VERY impressed and he posted:
>>>> "if you have more footage send it to me please" <<<<
:)
To: hennie pennie
Someone just sent me the link today. I wish I had more.
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posted on
07/04/2010 6:20:16 PM PDT
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(The Second Amendment, A Matter Of Fact, Not A Matter Of Opinion)
To: SWAMPSNIPER
A few Whistling Death pics for you
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
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posted on
07/04/2010 6:26:06 PM PDT
by
alfa6
To: SWAMPSNIPER
That is great footage.
I watched the first two episodes of THE PACIFIC HBO series this evening. It is very good
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posted on
07/04/2010 6:39:14 PM PDT
by
bert
(K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... The winds of war are freshening)
To: sonofstrangelove
To: FlyVet
My dad also served on the Big ‘E’. Transfered to her from the Lexington before Pearl. Had he stayed on the Lex he’d have gone down with his 3 best friends when she was sunk. As it was he became priviledged to fight in more battles than any other WWII fighting ship. He served in the most dangerous job, on the flight deck flagging aircraft. Was part of the fire crew that fought that elevator blaze you mentioned. God bless my dad, JVW, gone since 1994.
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posted on
07/04/2010 7:40:26 PM PDT
by
DWar
(The perfect is the enemy of the excellent!!)
To: DWar
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posted on
07/04/2010 8:22:41 PM PDT
by
FlyVet
To: SWAMPSNIPER
The modern liberal history revisionist and the Holocaust deniers want us to believe that this never really happen...
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posted on
07/04/2010 9:13:54 PM PDT
by
American Constitutionalist
(There is no civility in the way the Communist/Marxist want to destroy the USA)
To: alfa6
I’ve always thought those things look really cool.
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posted on
07/05/2010 3:10:55 AM PDT
by
Vanders9
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